Landmarks Robert Macfarlane
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| Cordee Code: | CTO363 |
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| Page Size: | 129 x 198 mm |
| No of Pages: | 434 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| ISBN13: | 9780241967874 |
| Author: | Robert MacFarlane |
| Published Date: | May 2016 |
| Edition: | PB ed, May 2016 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Product Type: | simple |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
Landmarks is 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.
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
Landmarks is 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.
