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

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON Award

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT Award

In the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS as well as the LOST WORDS

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

‘Enormously pleasurable, deeply shifting. A bid to save our rich hoard of panorama vocabulary, and a blow about Landmarks struck for the energy of a deep creative relationship to place’ Financial Situations

‘A book that should be browse by policymakers, educators, armchair environmentalists and energetic conservationists the world over’ Guardian

‘Gorgeous, thoughtful and lyrical’ Self-employed on Sunday

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

Discover Robert Macfarlane’s joyous meditation on words, scenery and the partnership between your two.

Terms are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our phrases. Landmarks is approximately the energy of language to form our feeling of place. It is a field help to the literature of character, and a glossary comprising thousands of exceptional words found in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to spell it out land, character and weather.

Traveling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin, J. A. Baker, Nan Shepherd yet others, Robert Macfarlane shows that language, well utilized, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and an essential means of arriving at love it.