Title: Landmarks
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.
Subjects: 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, Geography, NATURE, Essays, Regional
Places: Great Britain
People: Robert Macfarlane (1976-)