Lugemise kingitused

"During the lonely months and years it takes to write a book, it's easy to forget that it will – if you're lucky – take on a social life: that your book may enter the imagination and memory of readers and blossom there; that it may be slipped into a pocket or backpack and carried up a hill or to a foreign land; or that one person may give it to another. Perhaps it is these glimpses of how my books are carried or passed on that are the most precious aspects of being a writer to me."

Robert Macfarlane (b. 1976) is an English writer whose work focuses on the human relationship with nature and spiritual heritage. In this essay, he shares his experience of how the books he has been given have influenced his life, and how each gift gives much back to the giver.