Landmarks(1st Edition)

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Robert Macfarlane

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ISBN: 0241967872, 978-0241967874

Book publisher: Penguin Books

Book Price $0 : 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.