{"product_id":"landmarks-robert-macfarlane","title":"Landmarks (Robert Macfarlane)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eUNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTHE LOST WORDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly'  \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWords are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. \u003ci\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTravelling 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A book that ought to be read by policymakers, educators, armchair environmentalists and active conservationists the world over'  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Macfarlane's \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e- and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling books include \u003ci\u003eIs a River Alive?\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnderland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Old Ways\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Places\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMountains of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a book-length prose-poem, \u003ci\u003eNess\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, albums, choral works, and films including \u003ci\u003eRiver\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMountain\u003c\/i\u003e, both narrated by Willem Dafoe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMacfarlane has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Words\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Spells\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature, and in 2023 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is presently working on a graphic novel re-telling of the \u003ci\u003eEpic of Gilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMacfarlane and Morris's latest project, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Birds, \u003c\/i\u003ewill be published in May 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 448 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65809510564189,"sku":"K054403997","price":14.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/5440399700001A.jpg?v=1788510513","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/landmarks-robert-macfarlane","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}