Landmarks, by Robert MacFarlane
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#1 bestseller on the UK Sunday Times list, from the acclaimed author of The Old Ways 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. Traveling 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.
Landmarks, by Robert MacFarlane- Amazon Sales Rank: #91686 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-01
- Released on: 2015-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.80" w x 6.00" l, 1.48 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 400 pages
Review "Thoughtful and lyrical writing. . . It's gorgeous." —Independent on Sunday"Enormously pleasurable, deeply moving. . . Landmarks is both a bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language, and a blow struck for the power of a deep creative relationship to place." —Financial Times"His writing has a confidence and enjoyment, a passionate purpose. . . he celebrates our vast, but evaporating, vocabulary for the landscape." —Daily Telegraph
About the Author Robert Macfarlane won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for Mountains of the Mind. He is also the author of The Wild Places, which was adapted for the BBC, and The Old Ways, which was joint winner of the Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award, and shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful. There is more than one way to climb a mountain By Northern Wanderer This is a magical book. It is both a collection of landscape words from the British Isles and a meditation on writing, mountains and landscapes. It is not a quick read but something that satiates after a few pages, requiring digestion, or rereading. The place words are from a vanishing time when we knew our land like we now know how to get about town. The words shimmer with beauty even though I suspect I am making a poor job of the Gaelic pronunciations.I thought I was a pretty good writer but reading this is humbling in a happy way, taking pleasure in his writing and glad that there are people who can write like this.If you love nature, if you love words, if you think there is more than one way to climb a mountain (p. 63), this is a book that will give you pleasure.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Another fascinating topic from Robert MacFarlane By macc This is a very interesting approach to nature and to language. Anything that R. Macfarlane writes is going to make me think, and probably point me in the direction of several other books to add to my list. After only 2 or 3 chapters of this book, I already have 2 other books to find and read. I wasn't sure what to expect. Much of this is about other writers and their approach to nature and outdoors. Each chapter has a lengthy glossary, probably 70% of which contains words new to me. The book is definitely British-centric, but don't let that put you off. Rather, let it start you on an exploration of how regional writers in the US relate to and reflect their chosen environments.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Words to shape our sense of place By Blizzard lizard In MacFarlane's words: 'This is a book about the power of language... to shape our sense of place'. Words gleaned from meteorology, words gleaned from mountaineering, Macfarlane has examined, sorted and stacked them all into 'word-hoards' - glossaries describing the natural world. His glossary on snow and ice contains almost as many words for different types of snow as Eskimos are erroneously ascribed. He treasures words like èit that show how closely we once understood the natural world, 'placing quartz stones in moorland streams so that they will sparkle in moonlight and therefore attract salmon'.Macfarlane describes how his book was partly a response to the holes left in the Oxford children's dictionary after the 'culling of words concerning nature': 'conker' making room for 'cut and paste'. If we lose such words we lose the ability not only describe but to see and understand nature. Scattered among the glossaries are essays on the writers he loves, and some of their themes will be familiar to fans of his writing. At times the expansiveness of the essays seemed at odds with the concise precision of the glossaries and I wishes that Macfarlane had applied his 'pemmican logic' to this book, packing in 'maximum intellectual calories content per ounce', paring back these sections.Macfarlane revels in the beauty and expressiveness of words such as aquabob and clinkerbell (icicles) - how they sound, how they feel in the mouth. He strikes new words to describe our relationship to place. He is 'north-minded' ('drawn to high latitudes and high altitudes') and drawn also to the language of the north, the cadence of old English, the kenning. His words, and the words he gathers here, will make you look again in wonder at the natural world.
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