Landmarks

434 pages

English language

Published Aug. 24, 2016

ISBN:
978-0-241-96787-4
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OCLC Number:
1001909602

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"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.

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Subjects

  • Description and travel
  • Geography in literature
  • Travel
  • Human geography
  • Language and culture
  • Historical linguistics
  • Landscapes
  • Terminology
  • Geography

Places

  • Great Britain