Landmarks Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook model of Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane, browse by Roy McMillan

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‘Few books provide such a feeling of enchantment; it really is a book to provide to many, also to return to repeatedly’ Independent

‘Enormously pleasurable, deeply moving. A bid to save lots of our rich hoard of landscaping language, and a blow about Landmarks struck for the energy of the deep creative romantic relationship to place’ Financial Instances

‘A reserve that should be read by policymakers, educators, armchair environmentalists and active conservationists the world over’ Guardian

‘Beautiful, thoughtful and lyrical’ Impartial on Sunday

‘Feels as if [it] in some way grew from the land itself. A pleasure’ Sunday Instances

Discover Robert Macfarlane’s joyous deep breathing on words, surroundings and the relationship between the two.

Phrases are grained into our scenery, and scenery are grained into our phrases. Landmarks is approximately the energy of language to form our sense of place. It really is a field help to the books of character, and a glossary filled with thousands of exceptional words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, character and weather.

Going from Cumbria towards the Cairngorms, and discovering the scenery of Roger Deakin, J. A. Baker, Nan Shepherd yet others, Robert Macfarlane implies that language, well utilized, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and an essential means of arriving at love it.