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Item Details
Title:
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LANDMARKS
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By: |
Robert Macfarlane |
Format: |
Hardback |
List price:
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£20.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0241146534 |
ISBN 13: |
9780241146538 |
Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
5 March, 2015 |
Pages: |
400 |
Description: |
Travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin, J. A. Baker, Nan Shepherd and others, the author shows that language, well used, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and a vital means of coming to love it. |
Synopsis: |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two - now available in a beautiful new Winter edition for Christmas 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, Independent 'Every movement needs stars. In [Macfarlane] we surely have one, burning brighter with each book.'Telegraph '[Macfarlane] is a godfather of a cultural moment' Sunday Times |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Hamish Hamilton Ltd |
Prizes: |
Short-listed for Wainwright Prize 2016
Short-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2015 |
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Returnable |
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