{"product_id":"landmarks-paperback","title":"Landmarks - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert MacFarlane\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Old Ways \u003c\/i\u003eand \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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane 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 Shetlands to Cornwall and from Cumbria to Suffolk, 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. Interspersed 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 Barry Lopez and John Muir to Nan Shepard, J. A. Baker, and Roger Deakin. \u003ci\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/i\u003e is 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Macfarlane \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of a prizewinning quartet of books about landscape and the human heart: \u003ci\u003eMountains of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Places\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Old Ways, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Landmarks.\u003c\/i\u003e He has contributed to \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003e(London), the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e(London), and the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 02, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754072473888,"sku":"9780241967874","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c0d4f9cc7a4ff794ba71ff7050b55421.webp?v=1780032821","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/landmarks-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}