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This remarkable exploration of landscape and language celebrates the rich vocabulary once used to describe the natural world across Britain and Ireland. From the specialised terms of crofters and fishermen to the precise observations of naturalists and poets, it reveals how our connection to place has been encoded in words now at risk of disappearing.
Weaving together memoir, natural history, and cultural investigation, the book introduces readers to an extraordinary cast of writers who have shaped our understanding of wild places—from Nan Shepherd in the Cairngorms to Roger Deakin in the Suffolk countryside. At its heart lies a passionate argument for recovering the language that allows us to see, and ultimately to protect, the landscapes around us.
Both a glossary of wonder and an elegy for vanishing ways of speaking about nature, this is essential reading for anyone who cares about the British countryside and the words we use to describe it.
