Landmarks
By: Robert Macfarlane
Edition: [Expanded edition.].
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780241967874
Subjects: Description and travel; Geography in literature; Travel; Human geography; Language and culture; Historical linguistics; Landscapes; Terminology; Geography
Description: "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.
Notes: "First published by Hamish Hamilton 2015. Published with an additional glossary in Penguin Books 2016"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.