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

People: Robert Macfarlane (1976-)

Places: Great Britain