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by Macfarlane, Robert


  Orwell, George

  Osborne, Sidney

  otters

  oystercatchers

  Palmer, Samuel

  partridges

  Peak District

  peatbogs

  Pennines

  The Peregrine (Baker)

  peregrines

  peregrini

  literature by

  Persian Gulf

  Peru

  Peter (walker)

  Peterborough

  phosphorescence, marine

  The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes (Bagnold)

  pilgrims

  Feast of the Ascension

  peregrini

  pines

  pipits

  place-names: Celtic

  Platt, Rutherford

  Pliny

  Plumwood, Val

  pollution

  beach debris

  Irish trees

  light

  pesticides’ effects on birds

  Poole Haven

  poplars

  Pripiat

  ‘Puck of Pook’s Hill’ (Kipling)

  Pueblo Indians

  Quakers

  quincunxes

  Raasay

  Raban, Jonathan

  Rackham, Oliver

  Rannoch Moor

  raptors

  ravens

  real: modern alienation from the

  Rebuffat, Gaston

  Red Pike

  Redesdale

  redwoods

  The Return of the Native (Hardy)

  Reve, John

  Richard (author’s friend)

  ring forts

  River Coe

  River Naver

  road atlases

  Robinson, Tim

  Roger see Deakin, Roger

  Rogue Male (Household)

  Roman Empire

  Rothman, Benny

  Ruskin, John

  Sade, Marquis de

  Sage, Revd Donald

  St Cedd’s Abbey

  Saint-Exupéry, Antoine

  Saints, Island of the

  Salisbury Plain

  salmon

  Salmon, Patrick

  saltmarshes

  and climate change

  formation and ecology

  Salve Regina prayer

  samphire

  sanctuaries

  sand: behavioural studies

  sand deserts

  sand-eels

  Sandwood Bay

  Sandy see McRory-Smith, James

  Scafell

  Scale Force

  Schiehallion

  Scott, Robert

  Scott, Walter

  sea levels: rise in

  sea pink

  seabird colonies

  seagulls

  seals

  Second World War

  Selborne

  Sgurr Dearg

  Sgurr na Stri

  shags

  shan-shui tradition

  sharks

  Shaw, George Bernard

  shearwaters

  Sheldon Tapestries

  Shelter Stone

  Shepherd, Nan

  Shetland

  shingle

  sight: action of

  Simpson Desert

  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  Skelligs

  Skye

  Coruisk valley

  glaciers

  storms

  trees and inhabitants

  Sligachan

  snow

  and moonlight

  in the woods

  snow hares

  Snyder, Gary

  Soay, Isle of

  South Uist

  Southend

  sparrowhawks

  spiders

  spits: shingle

  squirrels

  Sron Ulladale

  Stalker, James

  Stanage Moor

  star-gazing

  Starlight and Storm (Rebuffat)

  Staverton Thicks

  Stegner, Wallace

  Stevenson, Robert Louis

  storms

  Strathchailleach

  Strathnaver

  Suilven

  Sutton Hoo

  Sweeney Astray (Sweeney, Peregrine)

  ‘The Swimmer’s Song’ (Wainwright)

  Swinburne, Algernon

  Taklamakan Desert

  Tales of the West of Ireland (Berry)

  Tamanrasset

  Tanzania

  T’ao Chi’en

  Terence (Roger’s friend)

  The Thirty-Nine Steps (Buchan)

  Thomas, Edward

  Thomas, Helen

  Thomas, R. S.

  Thompson ’Arcy Wentworth

  Thomson, David

  Thoreau, Henry David

  Thundersley

  Tigh Na Cruaiche

  Tilley, Christopher

  time: different senses of

  ‘Tintern Abbey’ (Wordsworth)

  Titterstone Clee

  Tongue

  tors: formation

  tree rings

  trees

  as archives of the past

  benign influence after death

  climbing

  human fascination with

  significance of autumn colours

  size of root system

  on Skye

  see also individual types by name; woods

  turloughs

  Turner, Dawson

  Turner, J. M. W.

  Ukraine

  unseen landscapes

  USA: history of maps

  Val de Susanfe

  Wainwright, Loudon

  Walberswick

  Wales (Thomas)

  Walnut Tree Farm

  walnut trees

  Warren, Robert Penn

  Wash

  waterfalls

  Waterlog (Deakin)

  waves: behavioural studies

  Weald

  weapons testing

  Wester Ross

  whales

  White, Gilbert

  Wild Hunt

  The Wilderness

  ‘The Wilderness Letter’ (Stegner)

  wildness and the wild

  conferred by the dark

  emotions aroused by unnamed places

  as energising force

  etymology

  human effect on

  indifference of

  loss of scale effect

  as process

  salutary nature

  sense of the past in

  temporary nature of human conquest

  ubiquity

  values attributed to

  and woods

  Wildwood (Deakin)

  willows

  Winnie the Pooh

  Wittenham Clumps

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig

  Wodan

  Wolseley, John

  woodhenges

  woodpeckers

  woods

  etymology

  fascination of

  fossilised

  historic deforestation

  new

  origins

  on Raasay

  significance of autumn colours

  and the wild

  see also trees

  Wordsworth, Dorothy

  Wordsworth, William

  World War see First World War

  World War see Second World War

  Xerxes, king of Persia

  Ynys Enlli

  Yorkshire Dales

  Yvonne (walker)

 

 

 
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