Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane

Landmarks by Robert MacfarlaneFrom the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly' Independent 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

a young shepherd living in the hills of Andalucia

With this new novel about the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood

Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller-coaster career over three decades in the Irish media

From Tom Percival's bestselling Big Bright Feelings series

a new language

up high and see all the trees

are forced to travel West in search of the promised land

twenty-five years

As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent

000 copies per year in the UK alone

These are the facts

He doesn't care where he finds it