The book puts names to things that are otherwise nameless, and draws those names from places in the UK. One that sticks in my mind is a "sheppey", the distance

The book puts names to things that are otherwise nameless, and draws those names from places in the UK. One that sticks in my mind is a "sheppey", the distance at which a sheep stops being picturesque. It has the narrative structure of a dictionary, but the ideas...