num_pages: 387
description: 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.
language: English
title: Landmarks
publisher: Hamish Hamilton