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The Language of Landscapes
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane is a collection of words to describe British countryside - words about streams, mud, groups of ducks, cold, rain, wind, clouds, branches, sticks - you name it.
The words are from Gaelic, Irish, Welsh and dozens of British county dialects. He gathered them by speaking to older people in those parts of the UK. He’s worried they’ll be lost. Jamie Coomarasamy asks him why he decided to write the book.
(Photo: Ducks in mud. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
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