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Uncommon Ground - A word-lover's guide to the British landscape (Paperback, Main)
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Uncommon Ground - A word-lover's guide to the British landscape (Paperback, Main)
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Discovery Miles 4 210
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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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