Landmarks
  • Published: 5 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241972731
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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Landmarks

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18 Jul 2016
EBook
5 Mar 2015
Audiobook
5 Mar 2015
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A joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two, from the bestselling author of The Old Ways

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Landmarks, a fascinating exploration of the relationship between language and landscapes by Robert Macfarlane, read by Roy McMillan.

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.

The audiobook version contains an exclusive bonus chapter - a recording of Finlay MacLeod (a novelist, historian, broadcaster, archivist and one of the dedicatees of Landmarks) reading words and definitions from his Peat Glossary for the Isle of Lewis. This hoard of rare and evocative terms was one of the inspiring documents for the book.

Finlay's voice is also used as a divider between chapters; and the other glossaries in the text are themselves bracketed with appropriate sound effects.
  • Published: 5 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241972731
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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About the author

Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane is the author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and The Lost Words, co-created with Jackie Morris. Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award and The Wild Places won the Boardman-Tasker Award. Both books have been adapted for television by the BBC. The Lost Words won the Books Are My Bag Beautiful Book Award and the Hay Festival Book of the Year. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and writes on environmentalism, literature and travel for publications including the Guardian, the Sunday Times and The New York Times.

Also by Robert Macfarlane

Is a River Alive?
Ness
The Wild Cards
The Lost Words
The Gifts of Reading
Underland
The Lost Spells
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Praise for Landmarks

A magnificent meditation on walking and writing. An astonishingly haunted book

Adam Nicolson (on The Old Ways), Daily Telegraph

The Old Ways sets the imagination tingling . . . it is like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems

John Carey (on The Old Ways), 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

John Banville (on The Old Ways), The Observer