Landmarks

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Robert Macfarlane's number one bestselling book celebrating the relationship between language and nature

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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780241967874
Published: May 2016

Number of pages: 448
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 29 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd