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Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

ISBN-10

0241967872

ISBN-13

9780241967874

eBay Product ID (ePID)

219322724

Product Key Features

Book Title

Landmarks

Number of Pages

448 Pages

Language

English

Publication Year

2016

Topic

General, Animals / Wildlife, Regional, Europe / Great Britain, Essays

Illustrator

Yes

Genre

Nature, Travel

Author

Robert Macfarlane

Book Series

Landscapes Ser.

Format

Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height

1.1 in

Item Weight

11.1 Oz

Item Length

7.8 in

Item Width

5.1 in

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Trade

LCCN

2016-429716

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Reviews

"Enormously pleasurable, deeply moving . . . Landmarks is both 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, Publisher's description. The number one bestselling book from the author of The Old Ways. This is a celebration of the unique relationship between language and place; a field guide to nature writers from Roger Deakin to Nan Shepherd; and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable, poetic, funny, peculiar and endangered words to describe the natural world., Praise from America and England for Landmarks " Landmarks is wildly ambitious, part outdoor adventure story, part literary criticism, part philosophical disquisition, part linquistic excavation project, part mash note. . . It's an argument for sitting down with a book; it's also an argument for going outside and paying attention." - The New York Times "[A] fascinating, poetic compilation of vocabulary invented to describe the natural world. . .Lucent, lyrical prose evokes Macfarlane's aesthetic, ethical, and powerfully tactile response to nature's enchantments." - Kirkus Reviews "Macfarlane's beautifully written blend of nature writing and lexicon connects the work of his favorite writers to the British Isles' natural settings and the distinctive, lyrical vocabulary used to describe them. . .[An] exceptional compilation." - Publishers Weekly "This joyous meditation on land and language is a love letter to the British Isles." - Observer "Lyrical, charged with a monumental strength. Surely no one since the young Ted Hughes has written about British landscape and wildlife with such fierce enthusiasm. Few writers today have such power to make you look afresh at the familiar . . . making a British countryside come alive as the most exotic place on earth." - Daily Express "Astonishing and revelatory. Please read Landmarks, encounter its wonderful words, let them open your mind . . . start looking at the world in the dazzlingly receptive way they have taught you." - Adam Nicolson, Spectator "As teeming and complex as an ecosystem, rawly moving, enormously pleasurable, historically important and imaginatively compelling, elegant and scholarly." - Melissa Harrison, Financial Times "Passionate and magical...A deep scholarship of the countryside with an adventurous approach, all rendered in immaculate, delicious prose. Macfarlane offers an enriched nature. A kind of manual of how people in love with place and language are created by landscape." - Horatio Clare, Daily Telegraph "So important, enriching. Ought to be read by policymakers, educators, armchair environmentalists and active conservationists the world over." - John Burnside, Guardian

Series Volume Number

Dewey Decimal

914.1/048612

Synopsis

From Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Underland --a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects of landscape, nature, and weather, drawn from dozens of languages and dialects of the British Isles. In this, his fifth book, Macfarlane brilliantly explores the linguistic and literary terrain of the British archipelago, from the Shetlands to Cornwall and from Cumbria to Suffolk, offering themed glossaries of hundreds of these rare, deeply local, poetical terms, organized by such geographical terrains as flatlands, uplands, waterlands, coastlands, woodlands, and underlands. Interspersed with this archive of place words are biographical essays in which Macfarlane writes of his favorite authors who have paid close attention to the natural world and who embody in their own work the huge richness of place language--from Barry Lopez and John Muir to Nan Shepard, J. A. Baker, and Roger Deakin. Landmarks is a book about the power of language and how it can become a way to know and love landscape, from a writer acclaimed for his own precision of utterance and distinctive, lyrical voice., 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.

LC Classification Number

DA632

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