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Uncommon Ground - A word-lover's guide to the British landscape (Paperback, Main) Loot Price: R490
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Uncommon Ground - A word-lover's guide to the British landscape (Paperback, Main): Dominick Tyler

Uncommon Ground - A word-lover's guide to the British landscape (Paperback, Main)

Dominick Tyler

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An enchanting visual glossary of the British landscape: photographs and stories which take the reader from the waterlogged fens to the white sands of the Western Isles. 'Out . . . over the hill and then down the dip and through some lumpy bits.' This was how Dominick Tyler used to describe the places he roamed during his childhood in rural Cornwall. Vague generalities were good enough then, but later he felt a more precise, more detailed language must exist, precisely because he needed it to do what people must have needed it to do for millennia: give directions, tell a story or find a place. And so he began collecting words for landscape features, words like jackstraw, zawn, clitter and cowbelly, shivver and swag, tolmen and tor. Words that are as varied, rich and poetic as the landscapes they describe. Many of these words for our landscape are falling into obscurity, some endure only by haunting place-names and old maps. Here Dominick Tyler gathers them into an enchanting visual glossary of the British landscape. On facing pages are photographs and stories touching on geology, literature, topography, folklore and a time when our ancestors read the lines on the land as fluently as text. Taking us from the waterlogged fens to the whitesands of the Western Isles, this full-colour book is a rare delight.

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Imprint: Guardian Faber Publishing
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2015
Authors: Dominick Tyler
Dimensions: 180 x 180 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 256
Edition: Main
ISBN-13: 978-1-78335-048-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Individual photographers
Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General
Books > Travel > Travel writing > General
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LSN: 1-78335-048-2
Barcode: 9781783350483

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