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Landmarks / Robert Macfarlane.

by Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- author.

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[London] : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2015.

Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- -- Travel -- Great Britain.

Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- -- Books and reading.

English language -- Variation.

Geography in literature.

British Isles -- Description and travel.

9780241146538 (hbk.)

0241146534 (hbk.)

x, 387 pages ; 24 cm

Winter edition.

"In this, his fifth book, Macfarlane brilliantly explores the linguistic and literary terrain of our archipelago, from the Shetlands to Cornwall, and from Cumbria to Suffolk. Landmarks is a book about the power of language--'strong style, single words'--to shape our sense of place. It is both a field guide to the literature he loves (Nan Shepherd, Roger Deakin and many more), and a 'word-hoard'; gathering an astonishing archive of place-terms from old Norse to Anglo-Romani, living Norman to Hebridean Gaelic. Over the book's course, via its chapters, its glossaries and surprise of its postscript--we come to realize that words, well used, are not just a means to describe landscape, but also a way to know it, and to love it. If we lose the rich vernacular lexis of these islands, developed over centuries, then we also risk impoverishing our relationship with nature and place"--Dust jacket flap.

The Wainwright Prize for best UK nature and travel writing, shortlist 2016.

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