EAN: 9780241967874

LANDMARKS - ROBERT MACFARLANE KARTONIERT (TB)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEFrom 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

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