{"product_id":"9780241967874-landmarks","title":"Landmarks","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWords 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. This is a guide to literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eUNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTHE LOST WORDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly'  \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWords are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. \u003ci\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTravelling 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A book that ought to be read by policymakers, educators, armchair environmentalists and active conservationists the world over'  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30343987462241,"sku":"9780241967874","price":10.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34166392.jpg?v=1746755017","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241967874-landmarks","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}