Praise from America and England for Landmarks

"Landmarks is wildly ambitious, part outdoor adventure story, part literary criticism, part philosophical disquisition, part linguistic excavation project, part mash note. It's an argument for sitting down with a book; it's also an argument for going outside and paying attention." - The New York Times

"[A] magnificent meditation on the words we have for describing the natural world. . . is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation." - Tom Shippey, The Wall Street Journal.

"Simply one of the best nature history books I have read in years, Landmarks is a stunning paean to the beauty of language, the craft of writing and the power of nature. It is truly a book that will for.