Bibliograph

Landmarks, Robert Macfarlane

Type

Label

Landmarks, Robert Macfarlane

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Landmarks

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

950962522

Responsibility statement

Robert Macfarlane

Summary

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<U+2014>from Barry Lopez and John Muir to Nan Shepard, J. A. Baker, and Roger Deakin

Target audience

adult

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