Landmarks
- Author Robert Macfarlane
- Narrator Roy McMillan
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 8 hours and 51 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical geography, The countryside, country life: general interest, Travel writing.
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What to expect
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane, read by Roy McMillan
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
From 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
'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
'Gorgeous, thoughtful and lyrical' Independent on Sunday
'Feels as if [it] somehow grew out of the land itself. A delight' Sunday Times
Discover 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.
Critics Review
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A magnificent meditation on walking and writing. An astonishingly haunted book
Daily Telegraph -
The Old Ways sets the imagination tingling . . . it is like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems
Sunday Times -
A wonderful book – literally a book full of wonders. He has a poet’s eye and a prose style that will make many a novelist burn with envy
The Observer
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