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Landmarks celebrates the microscopic verbal detail that clarifies a farmer's, a fisherman's or a climber's view of earth, sea and sky - "sike", for instance, a Yorkshire word meaning a small stream; "didder" being the quivering of a bog as the walker approaches in East Anglia; and "wham" a swamp in Cumbria. Flora and fauna have recolonised this eerie brownfield - or rather, white-cliff - site. As Landmarks pithily puts it: these days, "for blackberry read BlackBerry".



Then he found that the Junior Oxford Dictionary had purged a host of fairly basic nature words from k its latest edition. So, a sort of bastard beast welcomes us into this "bastard countryside" where - as in so much of Britain now - city meets suburb meets industry meets farmland. If Macfarlane adjusts your focus so that you come to relish this lowland muddle, his aesthetics of intimate wildness began at a higher altitude. Gouged out of the land to erect those temples of learning, the pits - on this steel-grey February morning, with pale gunk underfoot and a muted palette of earth colours sprouting through the chalk - feel like a claggy bowl of secrets.

" The quarries now serve as a nature reserve where more than 60 bird species have been identified and wild flowers such as harebell and milkwort thrive (Benjamin McMahon) Out of the woods, we skirt a golfing range where the drone of tractors collecting balls adds a fresh theme to the dissonant symphony of "post-pastoral" countryside. �For my generation, if you don�t do drugs, you�re not hip. Around this "contested site", he found swastikas carved into tree trunks - "One of the darkest places I've ever been.

You see kids hanging in tea shops, trying to look cool by nodding off and dropping their cigarettes. He mixed it with saline, drew it into a syringe�s plunger and held the needle aloft for inspection. The substance glowed tangerine in the light. Distrust is reinforced by past military campaigns to subjugate ethnic territories through a �four cuts� strategy: cutting their food, intelligence, cash and recruits - and all the while torching villages, violating women and dragooning men to carry supplies to the next targeted village.

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Its mighty granite-and-iron barrier stood firm, and was extended in 1816. � Of course, there are ulterior motives. �They say, �They�re poor, they use opium as medicine. Soon, the coming of the railways to Cornwall would strip every remaining advantage from local seaborne trade. �I�ve been hooked since I was 15,� said Lah San, now in his late 20s. In a modest way, the harbour flourished, although its relative isolation would prove fatal. By the early 1790s - and by now we're into the Poldark era - the copper boom led to the creation of a St Agnes Harbour Company.