The Making of the British Landscape : How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today

Pryor, Francis

ISBN 10: 1846142059 / ISBN 13: 9781846142055

Verlag: Penguin Books, Limited, 2010

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This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded, from the ceremonial landscapes of Stonehenge to the spread of the railways - evidence of how man's effect on Britain is everywhere. In The Making of the British Landscape, eminent historian, archaeologist and farmer, Francis Pryor explains how to read these clues to understand the fascinating history of our land and of how people have lived on it throughout time. Covering both the urban and rural and packed with pictures, maps and drawings showing everything from how we can still pick out Bronze Age fields on Bodmin Moor to how the Industrial Revolution really changed our landscape, this book makes us look afresh at our surroundings and really see them for the first time.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Former president of the Council for British Archaeology, Dr FRANCIS PRYOR has spent thirty years studying the prehistory of the Fens. He has excavated sites as diverse as Bronze Age farms, field systems and entire Iron Age villages. He appears frequently on TV's Time Team and is the author of Seahenge, as well as Britain BC and Britain AD, both of which he adapted and presented as Channel 4 series.

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Titel: The Making of the British Landscape : How We...
Verlag: Penguin Books, Limited
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good