Adam Nicolson

Fizmer, feetings, flosh, blinter – enjoy these words and forget them immediately, advises Adam Nicolson

In a review of Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane Adam Nicolson reminds us that the most poetic descriptions of nature were once the everyday speech of ordinary countrymen

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  • Landmarks

    Robert Macfarlane

    Hamish Hamilton, pp. 388

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

    Dominick Tyler

    Guardian Books/Faber, pp. 247

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