Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2015.
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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.A critically acclaimed writer,journalist and fellow of Emmanuel College,Cambridge,Robert Macfarlane's wide-ranging non-fiction writing encompasses nature,language,memory,landscape,literature and travel. His books includeThe Old Ways,Mountains of the Mind,The Wild Places,Holloway(with Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards) andLandmarks. His wonderful newbook,The Lost Wordswas published on 2nd October 2017 and is available now.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241967874Number of pages: 448Weight: 311 gDimensions: 199 x 131 x 31 mm
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'Thoughtful and lyrical writing...It's gorgeous.'- Katy Guest,Independent on Sunday
'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
'His writing has a confidence and enjoyment,a passionate purpose...he celebrates our vast,but evaporating,vocabulary for the landscape.'- Daily Telegraph
'A story like this is salutary...Landmarks is a book that ought to be read by policymakers,educators,armchair environmentalists and active conservationists the world over.'- Guardian
'The writing is full of clarity and internal reflections and the chapters ripple over into each other like a linked chain of mountain pools.... What is remarkable about these words is how precise they are,and how deeply local. They feel as if they somehow grew out of the land itself. A delight.'- Sunday Times Magazine
'The mood is one of celebration... (Landmarks is) the product of an active academic intelligence and emotional generosity,irradiated by a profound sense of wonder... Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many,and to return to repeatedly.'-Independent
Robert Macfarlane
A British author and academic,Robert Macfarlane is an author of prize-winning books on the themes of memory,landscape,nature,environmentalism and travel and regularly writes for publications including the Guardian and the Times. His first book,Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His other works include,The Old Ways,Landmarks and The Lost Words,a children's book of nature spells created in partnership with artist Jackie Morris.
Robert Macfarlane is Reader in Literature and the Geohumanities in the Faculty of English at Emmanuel College,Cambridge. His forthcoming book about subterranean spaces and deep time,Underland,will be published in 2019.
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