The Making of the British Landscape
Subtitle: How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today by Pryor, Francis  Hardcover
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: Aug 25, 2010
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 848
ISBN-13: 9781846142055
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: The Making of the British Landscape: How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today by Pryor, Francis (2010) Hardcover