Ebook: Landmarks
Author: Macfarlane Robert
- Tags: Landscapes, Landscapes--Great Britain, Travel, Terminology, Macfarlane Robert -- 1976- -- Travel -- Great Britain, Landscapes -- Great Britain -- Terminology, Great Britain -- Description and travel, Macfarlane Robert -- 1976-, Great Britain
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: Great Britain
- Language: English
- epub
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.
Praise for Robert Macfarlane:
'He has a poet's eye and a prose style that will make many a novelist burn with envy' John Banville, Observer
"I'll read anything Macfarlane writes" David Mitchell,...