《古道》是剑桥学者罗伯特·麦克法伦2012年所作，他类游记三部曲的最后一部，他行走于英国各种道途，记下一路上的所见所思，言说这些道路和他自己的故事，它们如何通往英国之外的世界和她们所构成的脉络。他的散文机智优雅、精巧而不晦涩。他所做的不是单纯的游记，而是将哲学和文学覆盖到他的步行旅程之中。这最终是一本关于人和地方之间关系的书，他探究的是我们是如果被我们所经过的风景所塑造

Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world’s highest places has came to grip the Western imagination—and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes. His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts. In the mid-1700s the attentions of both science and poetry sparked a passion for mountains; Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron extolled the sublime experiences to be had on high; and by 1924 the death on Mt Everest of an Englishman named George Mallory came to symbolize the heroic ideals of his day. Macfarlane also reflects on fear, risk, and the shattering beauty of ice and snow, the competition and contemplation of the climb, and the strange alternate reality of high altitude, magically enveloping us in the allure of mountains at every level.