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The Essay: A Five-Day Journey: Marking

The Essay - A Five-Day Journey - 1. Marking

Robert Macfarlane on the link between paths and stories, and paths as ghostly spaces.

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Robert Macfarlane walks along the South Downs, reflecting on the link between paths and stories, and how old paths were seen in the 19th-and early 20th-century as ghostly spaces.

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