Uncommon Ground: A Word-Lover'S Guide to the British Landscape [Audiobook] download free by Dominick Tyler
- Listen audiobook: Uncommon Ground: A Word-Lover'S Guide to the British Landscape
- Author: Dominick Tyler
- Release date: 2015/10/10
- Publisher: GUARDIAN FABER PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781783350483
- Rating: 8.66 of 10
- Votes: 898
- Review by: Ariya Lenz
- Review rating: 7.39 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/15
- Duration: 3H15M50S in 256 kbps (51.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-28
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MPEG-4 ALS, ATRAC, FLAC, TTA, MP3, MPEG4, WAV (compression RAR, DMG, ZIP, RPM)
- Total pages original book: 256
- Includes a PDF summary of 30 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M39S (6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: An enchanting visual glossary of the British landscape: photographs and stories which take the reader from the waterlogged fens to the white sands of the Western Isles.'Out . . . over the hill and then down the dip and through some lumpy bits.' This was how Dominick Tyler used to describe the places he roamed during his childhood in rural Cornwall. Vague generalities were good enough then, but later he felt a more precise, more detailed language must exist, precisely because he needed it to do what people must have needed it to do for millennia: give directions, tell a story or find a place.And so he began collecting words for landscape features, words like jackstraw, zawn, clitter and cowbelly, shivver and swag, tolmen and tor. Words that are as varied, rich and poetic as the landscapes they describe. Many of these words for our landscape are falling into obscurity, some endure only by haunting place-names and old maps. Here Dominick Tyler gathers them into an enchanting visual glossary of the British landscape.On facing pages are photographs and stories touching on geology, literature, topography, folklore and a time when our ancestors read the lines on the land as fluently as text. Taking us from the waterlogged fens to the whitesands of the Western Isles, this full-colour book is a rare delight.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Individual Photographers, Photography, Photographs: Collections, Guidebooks, Travel Writing
- Download servers: Volafile, FreakShare, Google Drive, Dropbox, Mediafire, 4Shared, Sync.com, MEGA. Compressed in RAR, DMG, ZIP, RPM
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 24.50 USD
- Dimensions: 180x180x22mm
- Weight: 605g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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