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Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane [Paperback]
Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane [Paperback]
Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane [Paperback]

Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane [Paperback]

$ 8.84

  • Author: Robert Macfarlane
  • Book Series: Landscapes Ser.
  • Book Title: Landmarks
  • EAN: 9780241967874
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Genre: Nature, Travel, History
  • ISBN: 9780241967874
  • Illustrator: Yes
  • Item Height: 1.1 in
  • Item Length: 7.8 in
  • Item Weight: 11.1 Oz
  • Item Width: 5.1 in
  • Language: English
  • MPN: N/A
  • Number of Pages: 448 Pages
  • Publication Year: 2016
  • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
  • Topic: Historical Geography, General, Essays & Travelogues, Europe / Great Britain, Essays
  • UPC: 9780241967874
  • gtin13: 9780241967874

Description

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 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.