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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEFrom the bestselling author of UNDERLAND THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS'Few books give such a sense of enchantment it is a book to give to many and to return to repeatedly' Independent 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.'Enormously pleasurable deeply moving. A bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language and a blow struck for the power of a deep creative relationship to place' Financial Times'A book that ought to be read by policymakers educators armchair environmentalists and active conservationists the world over' Guardian

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