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Landmarks (2015)

by Robert Macfarlane

Series: Landscapes (4)

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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2015 Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2016 Landmarksis Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarksis 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.… (more)

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914.1History and Geography › Geography and Travel › Geography of and travel in Europe › British Isles, UK, Great Britain, Scotland, Ireland

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DA632.M3245History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania › Great Britain › History of Great Britain › England › Description and travel. Guidebooks

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