Landmarks
Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane s joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two.Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words Landmarks 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 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. Download Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane – kino-fada.fr I rarely purchase books I don t have the budget or the space I m not a collector of things But every rare once in a while I come across a book so lovely and profound, one that speaks directly to the writer and poet in me, I know it is one I must have one my shelves Landmarks is just such a book A collection of essays and reflections on place as well as a series of glossaries of geography, geology, topography, weather and all other possible aspects of the natural world, Landmarks is a gorgeo I rarely purchase books I don t have the budget or the space I m not a collector of things But every rare once in a while I come across a book so lovely and profound, one that speaks directly to the writer and poet in me, I know it is one I must have one my shelves Landmarks is just such a book A collection of essays and reflections on place as well as a series of glossaries of geography, geology, topography, weather and all other possible aspects of the natural world, Landmarks is a gorgeous reminder of what it means to breathe and exist completely in the world, the ineffability of the seasons, the immensity of nature, the healing and generous gift of open space The wordsmith in me is completely enad of Robert Macfarlane s ode to language and land The language of place His desire, by naming all the things, by refusing to lose the myriad ways cultures have sought to identify the natural phenomena that surrounds them, is to sing the world back into being Nonoble pursu...My review of this just went up in the current issue of The Southeast Review Such a gorgeous book Originally landed on my list thanks to one of the most beautiful articles I ve read in a long timeA wonderful if idiosyncratic book on the language of landscape and nature Part of the book is a glossary of dialect, regional, slang, jargon and new coinages, organised by subject These glossaries are lists of words and places where they are in use linguists may note that the sources are rather selective The glossary sections are interspersed with essays that explain ...Wow Amazing What a lovely book, and one I will return to again and again I must buy a dead tree copy to keep with my other reference books, for the numerous lists of terms relating to the landscape And how beautiful that it concluded with children s experience of the land Magical throughout.I took incredible pleasure in this book and it s exploration of the relationship between words, place and the natural world Macfarlane introduced me to many writers that I didn t know, and reminded me of many works of nature writing that I have lo...This is a difficult book to clearly categorise It is a book about the natural world, about language to describe that natural world, but is also about the writers and in some cases friends, that he has learnt so much from in his journeys around the UK, up mountains and on long walks.As he writes about those authors, Nan Shepherd, Roger Deakin, Richard Mabey and Richard Skelton, seminal writers that have provided so much influence, through their work and books, it comes across that this is as muc This is a difficult book to clearly categorise It is a book about the natural world, about language to describe that natural world, but is also about the writers and in some cases friends, that he has learnt so much from in his journeys around the UK, up mountains and on long walks.As he writes about those authors, Nan Shepherd, Roger Deakin, Richard Mabey and Richard Skelton, seminal writers that have provided so much influence, through...This new classic of nature writing zeroes in on the language we use to talk about our environment, both individual words which Macfarlane celebrates in nine mini glossaries alternating with the prose chapters and the narratives we build around places, via discussions of the work of nature writers he admires, including John Muir, Barry Lopez, Nan Shepherd, J.A Baker, and Roger Deakin a personal friend for whom he served as literary executor.The book is divided into rough geological categor This new classic of nature writing zeroes in on the language we use to talk about our environment, both individual words which Macfarlane celebrates in nine mini glossaries alternating with the prose chapters and the narratives we build around places, via discussions of the work of nature writers he admires, including John Muir, Barry Lopez, Nan Shepherd, J.A Baker, and Roger Deakin a personal friend for whom he served as literary executor.The book is divided into rough geological categories mountains, woodlands, coasts, and so on For each landscape, he chooses a patron saint whose written works have influenced how he relates to it To start with I was unsure the glossary sections belonged, but I came around to them They are like rests in a piece of music Whether poetic heavengravel, Gerard Manley Hopkins s term for hailstones , local and folksy wonty tump, a Herefordshire word for a molehill , or onomatopoeic ...This book consists of chapters that focus on authors of nature writing Both the authors books and their lives are reviewed Interspersed between these chapters are glossary list of terms used to describe nature, land, water and weather These words are Gaelic, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Breton, English and Old English The meaning and origin of each word is given The words in the glossary lists are only loosely related to the subject of the previous chapter I have purchased both the beautiful h This book consists of chapters that focus on authors of nature writing Both the authors books and their lives are reviewed Interspersed between these chapters are glossary list of terms used to describe nature, land, water and weather These words are Gaelic, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Breton, English and Old English The meaning and origin of each word is given The words in the glossary lists are only loosely related to the subject of the previous chapter I have purchased both the beautiful hardcover and the audiobook I will not remember all the words in the glossary lists By having the hardcover I will be able to return to the lists for future reference Having the audi...I can t go beyond Macfarlane s own words to say what his most recent book is about the power of language strong style, single words to shape our sense of place It is a field guide to literature I love, and it is a word hoard of the astonishing lexis for landscape that exists in the compression of islands, rivers, strands, fells, lochs, cities, tons, carries, hedgerows, fields and edge lands uneasily known as the British Isles Each chapter revolves around one world and one or two writers I can t go beyond Macfarlane s own words to say what his most recent book is about the power of language strong style, single words to shape our sense of place It is a field guide to literature I love, and it is a word hoard of the astonishing lexis for landscape that exists in the compression of islands, rivers, strands, fells, lochs, cities, tons, carries, hedgerows, fields and edge lands uneasily known as the British Isles Each chapter revolves around one world and one or two writers Each is followed by a Glossary of connected words, arranged into subcategories and indexed by a creative and thorough indexer I love his use of the term word hoard , for words of and from the land are the treasure he seeks himself and whic...Acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin, conker, cowslip, cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture, and willow The Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2008 dropped these...
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- 23 March 2017 Robert Macfarlane
- Hardcover
- 387 pages
- Robert Macfarlane
- Landmarks