Gijs Limonard's Reviews > Landmarks

Wow, Robert Macfarlane keeps surprising me; after his magisterial Underland: A Deep Time Journey and The Gifts of Reading this one is right up there with the best; in addition to compiling a lexicon of long lost words and expressions pertaining to landscapes and natural phenomena, Macfarlane treats you to an extended contemplation of what it means to name things, and really inhabit the world instead of just cruising along unaware of the magic of the seemingly mundane.