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Landmarks

Written by: Robert Macfarlane
Narrated by: Roy McMillan
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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 (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 bracketed with appropriate sound effects.

©2015 Robert Macfarlane (P)2015 Penguin Audio

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Poem, word landscape, elegy,

This book is not for those looking for a linear narrative. I have found it to be a wonderful exploration of landscape emotion and language. I suspect I might not have become so engrossed reading this book but listening to it has been both balm and education

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A wonderful book with a great reader

I am a long time fan of Robert Macfarlane’s work; this work feels like the culmination of what he was doing in The Wild Places and The Old Ways. Roy Macmillan’s reading, as well as the gruff and enjoyable reading and pronunciations in the glossaries make this an ideal listening experience. Excellent and worthwhile — I will never forget the word “smeuse” and see them all the time now!

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