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Total pages original book: 448
Includes a PDF summary of 38 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 29M (7.6 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two.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.
Other categories, genre or collection: Historical & Comparative Linguistics, Linguistics, Travel Writing, Natural History Books, Countryside, Country Life, Geography Books, Historical Geography, Wildlife: General Interest