Landmarks Av Robert Macfarlane

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE<br><br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE<br><br>From the bestselling author of <i>UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS </i>and <i>THE LOST WORDS<br></i><br>''Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly'' <i>Independent</i><br><br></b>Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. <i>Landmarks</i> 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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>''Enormously pleasurable, deeply moving. A bid to save