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Landmarks

Robert Macfarlane

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Landmarks

Landmarks was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize. Discover 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. 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.

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Publisher
Penguin UK
Year
2015
ISBN-13
9780241967867
Genre
Nonfiction
Topics
Nature writing and languageLandscape and placeBritish countryside literature

Awards

Other awarded books from Robert Macfarlane

  • The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
  • Underland: A Deep Time Journey

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