{"product_id":"robert-macfarlane-landmarks","title":"Macfarlane, Robert - Landmarks | Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Old Ways\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderland\u003c\/i\u003e-a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFor years now, the British writer \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Macfarlane\u003c\/strong\u003e has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects of landscape, nature, and weather, drawn from dozens of languages and dialects of the British Isles. In this, his fifth book, Macfarlane brilliantly explores the linguistic and literary terrain of the British archipelago, from the \u003cstrong\u003eShetlands \u003c\/strong\u003eto \u003cstrong\u003eCornwall \u003c\/strong\u003eand from \u003cstrong\u003eCumbria\u003c\/strong\u003e to \u003cstrong\u003eSuffolk\u003c\/strong\u003e, offering themed glossaries of hundreds of these rare, deeply local, poetical terms, organized by such geographical terrains as flatlands, uplands, waterlands, coastlands, woodlands, and underlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterspersed with this archive of place words are biographical essays in which Macfarlane writes of his favorite authors who have paid close attention to the natural world and who embody in their own work the huge richness of place language-from \u003cstrong\u003eBarry Lopez \u003c\/strong\u003eand \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Muir \u003c\/strong\u003eto \u003cstrong\u003eNan Shepard\u003c\/strong\u003e, J. A. Baker, and Roger Deakin.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a book about the power of language and how it can become a way to know and love landscape, from a writer acclaimed for his own precision of utterance and distinctive, lyrical voice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Macfarlane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42321455611987,"sku":"9780241967874","price":23.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0583\/4476\/7571\/files\/91Nc9frnNKL.jpg?v=1732522226","url":"https:\/\/analogueworld.co.nz\/products\/robert-macfarlane-landmarks","provider":"Analogue World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}