Landmarks
Autor Robert MacFarlaneen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mai 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
From the bestselling author ofUNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYSandTHE 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.Landmarksis 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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241967874
ISBN-10: 0241967872
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241967872
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Robert
Macfarlaneis
the
author
ofMountains
of
the
Mind,
The
Wild
Places,
The
Old
Ways,Landmarks,andThe
Lost
Words,
co-created
with
Jackie
Morris.Mountains
of
the
Mindwon
the
Guardian
First
Book
Award
and
the
Somerset
Maugham
Award
andThe
Wild
Placeswon
the
Boardman-Tasker
Award.
Both
books
have
been
adapted
for
television
by
the
BBC.The
Lost
Wordswon
the
Books
Are
My
Bag
Beautiful
Book
Award
and
the
Hay
Festival
Book
of
the
Year.
He
is
a
Fellow
of
Emmanuel
College,
Cambridge,
and
writes
on
environmentalism,
literature
and
travel
for
publications
including
theGuardian,
theSunday
TimesandThe
New
York
Times.
Recenzii
Publisher's
description.
The
number
one
bestselling
book
from
the
author
ofThe
Old
Ways.This
is
a
celebration
of
the
unique
relationship
between
language
and
place;
a
field
guide
to
nature
writers
from
Roger
Deakin
to
Nan
Shepherd;
and
a
glossary
containing
thousands
of
remarkable,
poetic,
funny,
peculiar
and
endangered
words
to
describe
the
natural
world.
Thoughtful and lyrical writing . . . It's gorgeous
Enormously pleasurable, deeply moving . . .Landmarksis both a bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language, and a blow struck for the power of a deep creative relationship to place
His writing has a confidence and enjoyment, a passionate purpose . . . he celebrates our vast, but evaporating, vocabulary for the landscape
A story like this is salutary...Landmarksis a book that ought to be read by policymakers, educators, armchair environmentalists and active conservationists the world over.
The writing is full of clarity and internal reflections and the chapters ripple over into each other like a linked chain of mountain pools.... What is remarkable about these words is how precise they are, and how deeply local. They feel as if they somehow grew out of the land itself. A delight.
The mood is one of celebration... [Landmarks is] the product of an active academic intelligence and emotional generosity, irradiated bya profound sense of wonder... Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it isa book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly
Thoughtful and lyrical writing . . . It's gorgeous
Enormously pleasurable, deeply moving . . .Landmarksis both a bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language, and a blow struck for the power of a deep creative relationship to place
His writing has a confidence and enjoyment, a passionate purpose . . . he celebrates our vast, but evaporating, vocabulary for the landscape
A story like this is salutary...Landmarksis a book that ought to be read by policymakers, educators, armchair environmentalists and active conservationists the world over.
The writing is full of clarity and internal reflections and the chapters ripple over into each other like a linked chain of mountain pools.... What is remarkable about these words is how precise they are, and how deeply local. They feel as if they somehow grew out of the land itself. A delight.
The mood is one of celebration... [Landmarks is] the product of an active academic intelligence and emotional generosity, irradiated bya profound sense of wonder... Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it isa book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly