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Exploring ‘the power of language – strong style, single words – to shape our sense of place†Robert Macfarlane recalls his engagement with natural landscapes, either in person or though the work of writers such as Nan Shepherd and Roger Deakin, and presents glossaries of the evocative, archaic or local words used to describe them.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Landmarks 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. Seller Inventory # 0090611
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Non-fiction nature writing. Landmarks 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. This paperback book has 438 pages and measures. Seller Inventory # 000850
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Paperback. Condition: New. Exploring 'the power of language - strong style, single words - to shape our sense of place' Robert Macfarlane recalls his engagement with natural landscapes, either in person or though the work of writers such as Nan Shepherd and Roger Deakin, and presents glossaries of the evocative, archaic or local words used to describe them. Seller Inventory # 531654
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