From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST
WORDS' Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give
to many, and to return to repeatedly' Independent Words are grained
into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words.
Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It
is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing
thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and
Wales to describe land, nature and weather.
Travelling from
Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin,
J. A. Baker, Nan Shepherd and others, Robert Macfarlane shows that
language, well used, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and a vital
means of coming to love it.
'Enormously pleasurable, deeply
moving. A bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language, and a blow
struck for the power of a deep creative relationship to place' Financial
Times'A book that ought to be read by policymakers, educators, armchair
environmentalists and active conservationists the world over' Guardian
Landmarks - Robert Macfarlane
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£9.99