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# Explores UK landscapes in depth Thousands of unique nature words Shortlisted literary prize winner Landmarks

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## Summary

> 🌿 Speak the language of the land—before it’s lost forever.

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## Key Features

- • **Award-Winning Insight:** Shortlisted for Samuel Johnson & Wainwright Prizes—join the elite circle of literary connoisseurs.
- • **Timeless & Revisit-Ready:** A beautifully crafted field guide and glossary you’ll return to again and again—because true knowledge never fades.
- • **Nature’s Lexicon Unlocked:** Thousands of rare and regional words that deepen your connection to the British countryside.
- • **Immersive Landscape Journeys:** Travel from Cumbria to the Cairngorms through vivid, poetic explorations of place and language.
- • **Essential for Thought Leaders:** A must-read for policymakers, educators, and environmental advocates shaping tomorrow’s world.

## Overview

Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane is a critically acclaimed, prize-shortlisted book that explores the powerful relationship between language and landscape across the UK. Featuring thousands of rare regional words and poetic journeys through iconic natural sites, it serves as both a field guide and a literary celebration of nature’s vocabulary. Perfect for readers passionate about language, environment, and cultural heritage.

## Description

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE From 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 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. 'Enormously pleasurable, deeply moving. A bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language, and a blow struck for the power of a deep creative relationship to place' Financial Times 'A book that ought to be read by policymakers, educators, armchair environmentalists and active conservationists the world over' Guardian

Review: Appledranes and cheesybugs - A perfect book if you enjoy the countryside and enjoy the English language. By enjoying the countryside, I don't mean a nice day out but an interest that can identify some birds and insects, can spot a track in a field or a gap in a hedgerow, and always takes home litter and shuts gates behind you. By enjoying the English language, yes, it is wonderfully written with scholarship and originality, but I am referring to regional and dialect and specialised words for things or activities relating to the countryside, from yesterday and today, with a view to which might be retained in the future. With words such as 'acorn’ and ‘buttercup’ being dropped in favour of adding ‘broadband’ and ‘cut and paste’ to the Oxford Junior Dictionary, and flora and fauna being endangered or extinct annually, this book is a treasure. I don't like the quality of paper and print in my paperback so I may treat myself to a hardback.
Review: Well up to the author's usual high standard. - Anyone who is already familiar with MacFarlane's work will know what to expect here and as such you will not be disappointed. I admit to being a huge fan, so don't count on me for an unbiased view but even a critic must surely find something to like here. Taking various aspects of landscape, from mountain to urban, he explores them himself in short chapters whilst evoking the words and language of writers varying from John Muir to Iain Sinclair with a special chapter devoted to an obvious heroine of his, Nan Shepherd. What makes this book special though is the acknowledgement of local and slang terms for landscape, weather, and the human impact on the land which form glossaries at the end of each chapter. I suppose a minor criticism is that some of this ground has been previously covered on other forms but even so, this book acts as an excellent compendium of travels in, and those who write about, the landscape.

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## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 39,420 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 29 in Cottage Gardens 167 in Travel Writing (Books) 6,702 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 923 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Appledranes and cheesybugs
*by M***W on 30 August 2016*

A perfect book if you enjoy the countryside and enjoy the English language. By enjoying the countryside, I don't mean a nice day out but an interest that can identify some birds and insects, can spot a track in a field or a gap in a hedgerow, and always takes home litter and shuts gates behind you. By enjoying the English language, yes, it is wonderfully written with scholarship and originality, but I am referring to regional and dialect and specialised words for things or activities relating to the countryside, from yesterday and today, with a view to which might be retained in the future. With words such as 'acorn’ and ‘buttercup’ being dropped in favour of adding ‘broadband’ and ‘cut and paste’ to the Oxford Junior Dictionary, and flora and fauna being endangered or extinct annually, this book is a treasure. I don't like the quality of paper and print in my paperback so I may treat myself to a hardback.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well up to the author's usual high standard.
*by J***L on 10 March 2015*

Anyone who is already familiar with MacFarlane's work will know what to expect here and as such you will not be disappointed. I admit to being a huge fan, so don't count on me for an unbiased view but even a critic must surely find something to like here. Taking various aspects of landscape, from mountain to urban, he explores them himself in short chapters whilst evoking the words and language of writers varying from John Muir to Iain Sinclair with a special chapter devoted to an obvious heroine of his, Nan Shepherd. What makes this book special though is the acknowledgement of local and slang terms for landscape, weather, and the human impact on the land which form glossaries at the end of each chapter. I suppose a minor criticism is that some of this ground has been previously covered on other forms but even so, this book acts as an excellent compendium of travels in, and those who write about, the landscape.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I can respect his academic analysis of landscape terminology but found this a rather challenging sometimes disappointing read
*by A***N on 26 January 2017*

The previous books by Robert Macfarlane have been enticing reads with a natural progression that flow well, and have been beautiful lovely page turners. This is a rather different tome, more academic, probably easier to dip into now and again for reference, and I found it hard going at times reading it through from start to finish in one go. It is a more academic treatise, I found it sometimes a bit too clever for comfortable reading. I felt the structure was all a bit stop start, with the glossary at the end of each chapter a bit random in the way it was organised. There also seems to be a rather patchy geographical coverage, with some areas rich seams of local words, but others nearby were notable by lack of entries, it does not seem comprehensive, but rather a work in progress. There are 11 chapters, each relating to a different landscape or ecological niche, with a focus on a main previous author who had excelled in exploring each habitat in depth . Some of these worked for me well and gave a fascinating insight, such as writer Roger Deakin on Woods and Water, that Robert met and got to know well and build a close and symbiotic relationship with. Others are historical so secondhand accounts, like John Muir who was responsible for establishing the first National Parks in the world in the United states through his endeavour and influence on politicians, still fascinating and influential. However ,some of the other authors featured in some chapters I did not find so likeable, or interesting, and at times I found the text slow going and dense, lacking the sparkle in previous books that marked them out as truly something special. I can respect the research that has gone into producing this, but it is not a book that I loved reading and enjoyed in the same way as his earlier books that I thought were stunning and truly special. For me personally, overall I ended up feeling rather disappointed and frustrated, and it was a bit of a struggle to get through this. Some of his found words are lovely and intriguing, but there also seems to be a lot of minor variation on a theme. A bit of a curate's egg, good in parts, but marred for me by a disjointed structure, and a more academic treatise that at times did not flow well and got bogged down in detail and rather convoluted. This is probably a reflection on my own intellectual shortcomings and attention span, but I hope this book is a bit of a side project and he returns to more readable accessible love of the British landscape for future books. By no means bad, there is still a lot to admire, but it was certainly not my favourite book by this author .

## Frequently Bought Together

- Landmarks (Landscapes)
- The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Landscapes)
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