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"Many people have written about travel, but far fewer have written about roads."
Every day, we travel along the road. Among the countless roads you have traveled, which one has a unique meaning?
The walk from school that I used to play with my friends when I was a child, but it took half an hour to walk ten minutes away;
The field road where I ran wildly in my hometown in the countryside;
After get off work, I often go for a walk near the community or in the park. Road;
On a certain holiday, there are ancient roads and mountain trails dedicated to "pilgrimage"...
Roads are not only the way that takes us from point a to point b, but also the carrier of memories and emotions. Every step we take is on the earth. Carve your own history.
As Cambridge scholar Robert MacFarlane wrote in "The Ancient Road":
"The road is like a bundle of intertwined stories and memories, and the emotional precipitation has also become part of the road's precipitation."
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"The Ancient Road" At the beginning, McFarlane followed the tracks of birds and animals on the snow and walked up the snowy hills in the suburbs on a snowy night. He came up with an idea:
to re-walk the forgotten road, not only to experience the scenery, but also to recall the passers-by of the past. story.
He took the "Broom Causeway" known as the "Road to the End" on the coast of Essex, England.
At the junction of the foggy sea and land, he felt the psychedelic dizziness across the border - a walk It was enough to be a novel adventure to discover a new world;
He walked along the mountain trail that his grandfather loved most during his lifetime, and rushed to his grandfather's funeral on the other side of the mountain.
Along the way, he looked back at the old man's life - walking is a memorial, and it is also a journey of footwork. Conversation on the soles of the feet;
He came to Sichuan, China, determined to complete the mountainous path of Gongga Mountain.
Walk around the mountain instead of climbing up, and return to the starting point from the starting point - walking is an inward exploration, and arrival is not the only one. purpose.
From the chalk roads in England to the pilgrim roads in Spain, from the forbidden roads in Palestine to the mountainous roads in Sichuan, China, from the land routes to the sea routes on the Atlantic,
McFarlane has traveled more than a thousand miles along the way, writing about these roads and The story of "The Traveler".
"The path is a sentence, and the feet in the pedestrian's shoes are the pen tip or the printed type."
Welcome to leave a message to share your "on the road" story.
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Robert McFarlane
