{"product_id":"9780241967867","title":"9780241967867","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. \u003ci\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Old Ways\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A magnificent meditation on walking and writing. An astonishingly haunted book' Adam Nicolson, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Sets the imagination tingling . . . like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems' John Carey, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A wonderful book. He has a poet's eye and a prose style that will make many a novelist burn with envy' John Banville, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Robert Macfarlane won the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003eYoung Writer of the Year Award for his first book, \u003ci\u003eMountains of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e. His second, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Places\u003c\/i\u003e, won three prizes and was adapted for the BBC. \u003ci\u003eThe Old Ways\u003c\/i\u003e was joint winner of the Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award, and shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and eight other awards. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156838039792,"sku":"9780241967867","price":28.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780241967867_p0.jpg?v=1763681227","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780241967867","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}