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Roy McMillan
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Landmarks, a fascinating exploration of the relationship between language and landscapes by Robert Macfarlane, read by Roy McMillan.
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.
The audiobook version contains an exclusive bonus chapter - a recording of Finlay MacLeod (novelist, historian, broadcaster, archivist, and one of the dedicatees of Landmarks) reading words and definitions from his Peat Glossary for the Isle of Lewis.
This hoard of rare and evocative terms was one of the inspiring documents for the book.
Finlay's voice is also used as a divider between chapters, and the other glossaries in the text are bracketed with appropriate sound effects.
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Great book. Great narrator.
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New favorite
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It is a forever book.
The narrator is a pleasure to listen to, and perfectly matched here.
Perfection.
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breadth of vision.
Fabulous audio read
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Would you consider the audio edition of Landmarks to be better than the print version?
I sure the written word version of this book is good, but the audible version is outstanding!Background ambient sound, this background "native voice" adds a ghost-like background as a transition change. The readers voice is gentle, yet dramatic. Highly recommend
mesmerizing
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Love love
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Must Read/Listen
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Another masterpiece of Robert MacFarlane
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Amazing
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Watch out, my book collection increased substantially after listening to this.
McMillan narrating Macfarlane is a treat
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