A Scots Dictionary of Nature by Amanda Thomson
A Scots Dictionary of Naturebrings together for the first time the deeply expressive vocabulary used in the past and present to describe land, wood, weather, birds, water and walking in Scotland.
Delightful.. A celebration of Scotland's great outdoors, this is a lovely book to have on the coffee table. Easy to read and interesting to rifle through. Scottish Field; So good. Robert Macfarlane; Full of words and expressions which ...[are] ripe for reappropriation. Scotsman; A reminder of how easily the beauty of language and its connection with nature can be lost. Herald; A stunning wee book detailing some of the wonderfully inventive Scots words that document the world around us. The List; ...a delight to leaf through Herald
Amanda Thomson is a visual artist and writer who teaches at the Glasgow School of Art. She graduated with a first from Glasgow School of Art and has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her arts-based PhD, from UHI/ the University of Aberdeen, is about the forests of Abernethy and Morayshire. Her artwork is often about notions of home, movement and migration, landscapes and how places come to be made. She lives and works in Glasgow and in Strathspey. A Scots Dictionary of Nature is her first book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781912235520 |
| ISBN 10 | 1912235528 |
| Title | A Scots Dictionary of Nature |
| Author | Amanda Thomson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Saraband |
| Year published | 2019-11-14 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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