Robert Macfarlane

Landmarks

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ISBN 13:: 9780241967874
author:: Robert Macfarlane
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Penguin Reprint edition
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2016
Pages:: 448
Dimensions:: 12.9 x 2.7 x 19.7 cm
Genre:: Society, Politics & Philosophy, Social Sciences, Linguistics, Robert Macfarlane,Landmarks,Penguin,0241967872,People & Places: General,Great Britain,Great Britain - Description and travel,Landscapes,Landscapes - Great Britain,Macfarlane, Robert,Macfar
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Robert Macfarlane's Landmarks is a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place. Drawing on dozens of languages and dialects, Macfarlane has collected a vast archive of rare, deeply local terms for aspects of landscape, nature, and weather. These place-words are organized by geographical terrain, offering a unique insight into the linguistic and literary heritage of the British Isles. Interspersed with this archive are biographical essays on authors who have paid close attention to the natural world, whose work embodies the richness of place language. Through its exploration of language and landscape, Landmarks reveals the huge potential of words to become a way to know and love the land around us.

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