What Is Landscape?
By John R. Stilgoe
By John R. Stilgoe
By John R. Stilgoe
By John R. Stilgoe
Category: Arts & Entertainment
Category: Arts & Entertainment | Philosophy
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$16.95
Apr 20, 2018 | ISBN 9780262535281
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Oct 16, 2015 | ISBN 9780262330787
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Praise
…[Stilgoe’s] love of language and the land sees him ploughing through outdated and specialist dictionaries for our benefit, in this illuminating and entertaining book…. Reading this will have you thinking anew about words, as it breaks down both the language and the land that it may originate from or be attached to.—Irish Times—
[Y]ou… will find sentences that speak to you so personally as to feel thrilling, almost spookily so.
—The Wall Street Journal—Stilgoe’s book champions landscape studies as a discipline founded on curiosity and deep, associative thought, open to byways, discovery, and the occasional absurdity, rewarding for amateurs and seasoned practitioners alike.
—Publishers Weekly—Lovers of dictionaries and nature can rejoice in John Stilgoe’s new book.
—The Paris Review—21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read
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