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Author Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- author.

Title Landmarks / Robert Macfarlane.

Publication Info. [London] : Penguin Books, 2016.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1767805~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  914.1048612 MAC    AVAILABLE
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Description x, 434 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Landmarks is a book about the power of language - 'strong style, single words' - to shape our sense of place. It is both a field guide to the literature the author loves (Nan Shepherd, Roger Deakin and many more), and a 'word-hoard', gathering an astonishing archive of place-terms from old Norse to Anglo-Romani, living Norman to Hebridean Gaelic. Over the book's course, via its chapters, its glossaries and surprise of its postscript - we come to realize that words, well used, are not just a means to describe landscape, but also a way to know it, and to love it"--from publisher.
Subject Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- -- Travel -- Great Britain.
Landscapes -- Great Britain -- Terminology.
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
ISBN 9780241967874 (paperback)
0241967872 (paperback)
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