In Palestinian Walks, lawyer and writer Raja Shehadeh describes six walks he took in the hills of the West Bank around Ramallah between 1978 and 2007. The walks – along valleys, springs, terraced fields and old stone shelters known as qasr – reveal his deep love for the land.

Over the years, the landscape changes dramatically as settlements, bypass roads, checkpoints and the wall cut through the hills, making free walking increasingly difficult and dangerous. Interweaving nature writing, memoir and politics, Shehadeh documents how the occupation is transforming Palestine’s land itself. The book won the Orwell Prize in 2008.