Landmarks Contributor(s): MacFarlane, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0241967872 ISBN-13: 9780241967874 Publisher: Penguin Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: August 2016 Click for more in this series: Landscapes |
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BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays - Nature | Regional - History | Historical Geography |
Dewey: 914.104 |
Series: Landscapes |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5" W x 7.7" L (0.70 lbs) 448 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2016 Publishers Weekly 05/30/2016 |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
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