Landmarks
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2015
Place of publication: UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780241146538
Description: "In this, his fifth book, Macfarlane brilliantly explores the linguistic and literary terrain of our archipelago, from the Shetlands to Cornwall, and from Cumbria to Suffolk. 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 he 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 mrealize that words, well used, are not just a means to describe landscape, but also a way to know it, and to love it. If we lose the rich vernacular lexis of these islands, developed over centuries, then we also risk impoverishing our relationship with nature and place"--Dust jacket flap.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: The Word Hoard
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: A Counter-Desecration Phrasebook
pagenum: 15; label: Glossary I
title: Flatlands
pagenum: 37; label: 3
title: The Living Mountain
pagenum: 55; label: Glossary II
title: Uplands
pagenum: 81; label: 4
title: The Woods and the Water
pagenum: 95; label: Glossary III
title: Waterlands
pagenum: 117; label: 5
title: Hunting Life
pagenum: 139; label: Glossary IV
title: Coastlands
pagenum: 163; label: 6
title: The Tunnel of Swords and Axes
pagenum: 177; label: Glossary V
title: Underlands
pagenum: 195; label: 7
title: North-Minded
pagenum: 209; label: Glossary VI
title: Northlands
pagenum: 221; label: 8
title: Bastard Countryside
pagenum: 231; label: Glossary VII
title: Edgelands
pagenum: 249; label: 9
title: Stone-Books
pagenum: 263; label: Glossary VIII
title: Earthlands
pagenum: 279; label: 10
title: The Black Locust and the Silver Pine
pagenum: 289; label: Glossary IX
title: Woodlands
pagenum: 305; label: 11
title: Childish
pagenum: 315; label: Glossary X
title: Left blank for future place-words and the reader's own terms
pagenum: 329; title: Postscript
pagenum: 333