Ebook {Epub PDF} Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane

 · Landmarks, a remarkable book on language and landscape makes a passionate case for restoring the "literacy of the land," for recalling and setting down the lexicon of the natural world, at a time when it's rapidly disappearing Mr. Macfarlane embarks on this ambitious task by taking us to the farthest reaches of the British countryside, exploring it with (or in the footsteps of) some of the nature Brand: Penguin UK. 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/5. Robert Macfarlane is the author of a prizewinning trilogy of books about landscape and the human heart: Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, and The Old Ways. He has contributed to Harper’s, Granta, the Observer (London), the Times Literary Supplement (London), and the London Review of www.doorway.rus:

Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane review - language and the land are continuous To have the words to describe the natural world is to become more attentive, and, we can only hope, more capable of. Robert Macfarlane's Landmarks is much more than a harrowing elegy for the British rural scene, with which up until recently we were intimately connected. The book is an apocalyptic vision The book is an apocalyptic vision. Robert Macfarlane is the author of best-selling, prize-winning books about nature, place, and people, including Mountains of the Mind, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and (with Jackie Morris) The Lost www.doorway.ru he was awarded the E. M. Forster Prize for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane review – language and the land are continuous To have the words to describe the natural world is to become more attentive, and, we can only hope, more capable of. Like. “The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, by its conspicuousness, serves as a guide in the direction of one's course.”. ― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks. tags: direction, landmark, nature, outdoors, path. 2 likes. Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Landmarks, a fascinating.