SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words landscape & the relationship between the two Words are grained into our landscapes & 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 & a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England Scotland Ireland & Wales to describe land nature & weather Travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms & exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin J A Baker Nan Shepherd & others Robert Macfarlane shows that language well used is a keen way of knowing landscape & a vital means of coming to love it