In this book, Robert Macfarlane explores the linguistic and literary landscape of the British Isles, and how words shape our sense of place. He investigates cultural reactions to landscape through naming of rock formations, rainfall, agriculture and many other aspects of the natural world. The book is arranged with chapters on mountains, woods, rivers, hunting, farming etc, and he discovers early writers on these subjects and describes their legacy, and then the chapter closes with a glossary of lost or traditional words and their meanings relating to that subject. It's an unusual book, but it is informative, fascinating and brilliantly written as we have come to expect from Macfarlane, as well as being beautifully packaged. A pleasure to hold as well as to read.