Writing book landscape

There are a couple of different approaches to writing about landscape, or place more generally: some offer great depth, wrung from experience, of knowing somewhere inside-out

Joan Didion, for example, has written wonderful essays and books on California, where she grew up and lived for much of her adult life

When we discussed ‘landscape writing’ as a topic, I assumed that this would be a list comprised largely of nature books

But none of these titles are explicitly works of nature writing, and most would not self-identify even as landscape writing

A lot of the writing that I particularly love about landscape is immersive in that way

Some of the books I’ve chosen are not what you would understand as primarily landscape books, but I think they have enormous specificity, a sense of the uniqueness of a place

Every place has a unique quality; it has its own song