Uncommon ground : a word-lover's guide to the British landscape / Dominick Tyler.

Main entry:

Tyler, Dominick, author, photographer.

Title & Author:

Uncommon ground : a word-lover's guide to the British landscape / Dominick Tyler.

Publication:

London : Guardian Books : Faber & Faber, 2015.

Description:

247 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

'Out ... over the hill and then down the dip and through some lumpy bits.' This was how the author used to describe the places he roamed during his childhood in rural Cornwall. He began collecting words for landscape features, words like jackstraw, zawn, clitter and cowbelly. In this book he gathers them into a glossary of the British landscape.

ISBN:

9781783350483 (pbk.)
1783350482 (pbk.)

Subject:

Tyler, Dominick.
Landscape photography Great Britain.
Names, Geographical English Pictorial works.
Geography Great Britain Terminology.
Photographie de paysages Grande-Bretagne.
Noms géographiques anglais Ouvrages illustrés.
Géographie Grande-Bretagne Terminologie.
Geography.
Names, Geographical English
Landscape photography
Engelska språket.
Ordförråd.
Great Britain Pictorial works.
Great Britain

Form/genre:

Illustrated works
Terminology

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291219
Call No.: BIB 234695
Status: Available

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