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Title: LANDMARKS
By: Robert Macfarlane
Format: Hardback

List price: £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
Returns: Returnable
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HISTORY OF PROPELLERS AND STEAM NAVIGATI (PB)
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HISTORY OF PROPELLERS AND STEAM NAVIGATION
HISTORY OF PROPELLERS AND STEAM NAVIGATION (HB)
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HISTORY OF PROPELLERS AND STEAM NAVIGATION (PB)
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HISTORY OF PROPELLERS AND STEAM NAVIGATION WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE EARLY INVENTORS (HB)
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LOST SPELLS (CD)
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LOST SPELLS SIGNED EDITION (HB)
LOST WORDS
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LOST WORDS (CD)
LOST WORDS 20 POSTCARD PACK
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MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA
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MY HOUSE OF SKY (HB)
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NESS
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PAUL WAKEFIELD THE LANDSCAPE (HB)
PRACTICAL NOTES ON THE STRUCTURE OF ISSU (HB)
PRACTICAL NOTES ON THE STRUCTURE OF ISSU (PB)
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PRACTICAL NOTES ON THE STRUCTURE OF ISSUES IN JURY CASES IN THE COURT OF SESSION (HB)
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