Landmarks

<b>Robert Macfarlane</b> is the bestselling author of <i>Mountains of the Mind The Wild Places The Old Ways </i><i>Landmarks </i>and <i>Underland</i> and<i> </i>co-creator of <i>The Lost Words </i>and <i>The Lost Spells</i><i>.</i> <i>Mountains of the Mind</i> won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award and <i>The Wild Places</i> won the Boardman-Tasker Award. Both books have been adapted for television by the BBC. <i>The Lost Words</i> won the Books Are My Bag Beautiful Book Award and the Hay Festival Book of the Year. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge and writes on environmentalism literature and travel for publications including the <i>Guardian</i> the <i>Sunday Times</i> and <i>The New York Times</i>. He is now working on his third book with long-time collaborator Jackie Morris: <i>The Book of Birds</i>. Publisher's description. The number one bestselling book from the author of <i>The Old Ways. </i>This is a celebration of the unique relationship between language and place; a field guide to nature writers from Roger Deakin to Nan Shepherd; and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable poetic funny peculiar and endangered words to describe the natural world. Thoughtful and lyrical writing . . . It's gorgeous Enormously pleasurable deeply moving . . . <i>Landmarks </i>is both a bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language and a blow struck for the power of a deep creative relationship to place <p>His writing has a confidence and enjoyment a passionate purpose . . . he celebrates our vast but evaporating vocabulary for the landscape</p> A story like this is salutary...<i>Landmarks</i> is a book that ought to be read by policymakers educators armchair environmentalists and active conservationists the world over. The writing is full of clarity and internal reflections and the chapters ripple over into each other like a linked chain of mountain pools.... What is remarkable about these words is how precise they are and how deeply local. They feel as if they somehow grew out of the land itself. A delight. The mood is one of celebration... [Landmarks is] the product of an active academic intelligence and emotional generosity irradiated by <b>a profound sense of wonder</b>... Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is <b>a book to give to many and to return to repeatedly</b> <p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE<br><br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE<br><br>From the bestselling author of <i>UNDERLAND THE OLD WAYS </i>and <i>THE LOST WORDS<br></i><br>'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many and to return to repeatedly' <i>Independent</i> <br><br></b>Words are grained into our landscapes and landscapes are grained into our words. <i>Landmarks</i> 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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>'Enormously pleasurable deeply moving. A bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language and a blow struck for the power of a deep creative relationship to place' </b><i>Financial Times<br></i><br><b>'A book that ought to be read by policymakers educators armchair environmentalists and active conservationists the world over' </b><i>Guardian</i></p> <p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE<br><br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE<br><br>From the bestselling author of <i>UNDERLAND THE OLD WAYS </i>and <i>THE LOST WORDS<br></i><br>'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many and to return to repeatedly' <i>Independent</i> <br><br></b>Words are grained into our landscapes and landscapes are grained into our words. <i>Landmarks</i> 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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>'Enormously pleasurable deeply moving. A bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language and a blow struck for the power of a deep creative relationship to place' </b><i>Financial Times<br></i><br><b>'A book that ought to be read by policymakers educators armchair environmentalists and active conservationists the world over' </b><i>Guardian</i></p>