Landmarks

*Landmarks* is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. 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. A critically acclaimed writer, journalist and fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, [Robert Macfarlane](https://www.waterstones.com/author/robert-macfarlane/172313)’s wide-ranging non-fiction writing encompasses nature, language, memory, landscape, literature and travel. His books include *The Old Ways*, *[Mountains of the Mind](https://www.waterstones.com/book/mountains-of-the-mind/robert-macfarlane/9781847080394)*, *[The Wild Places](https://www.waterstones.com/book/wild-places/robert-macfarlane/9781847080189)*, *[Holloway](https://www.waterstones.com/book/holloway/robert-macfarlane/dan-richards/9780571310661)* (with Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards) and *[Landmarks](https://www.waterstones.com/book/landmarks/robert-macfarlane/9780241967874)*. His wonderful new book, *[The Lost Words](https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-lost-words/robert-macfarlane/jackie-morris/9780241253588)* was published on 2nd October 2017 and is available now.