Uncommon Ground: A Word-Lover’s Guide to the British Landscape

Description

‘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.