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Landmarks Paperback - 2016

by Macfarlane, Robert

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  • Title Landmarks
  • Author Macfarlane, Robert
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Publication date 2016-08-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR007627010
  • ISBN 9780241967874 / 0241967872
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 1.2 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 3.05 cm)
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain, Travel
  • Dewey Decimal Code 914.104
  • Quantity available 16

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This seller has earned a 4.56 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
4.56 / 5 (9 total reviews)

Readers praised the book’s vivid focus on landscape and people, highlighting the author’s precise vocabulary and immersive observations. Even a non-native speaker who skipped the glossaries found it moving and plans to reread. While the specialized terminology can feel dense, overall response was enthusiastic and the book inspired a desire to be outdoors.

Readers say this book is:
evocativeimmersivepreciseinspiringlyricalmeticulousmovingdemandingnature-focusedmemorable

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From the publisher

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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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/2016, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/30/2016, Page 0

About the author

Robert Macfarlane is the author of prizewinning books about landscape and the human heart: Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and Underland . He has contributed to Harper's, Granta, The New Yorker, the Observer (London), the Times Literary Supplement (London), and the London Review of Books. He is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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