Landmarks
by Robert Macfarlane
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"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 the author 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"--from publisher.
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Books and reading, English language, Description and travel, Geography in literature, Travel, Variation, Landscapes, Great britain, description and travel, Terminology, Landscapes in literature, Travelmacfarlane, robert , 1976-, Books and readingmacfarlane, robert , 1976-, English language--variation, Da632 .m3245 2015, 914.1/048612, Human geography, Language and culture, Historical linguistics, GeographyPeople
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"First published by Hamish Hamilton 2015. Published with an additional glossary in Penguin Books 2016"--Title-page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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