The moorlands of England and Wales
Subtitle: an environmental history 8000 BC to AD 2000
By: I.G. Simmons.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: Moors (Wetlands) -- England -- History.; Moors (Wetlands) -- Wales -- History.; Heathlands -- England -- History.; Heathlands -- Wales -- History.; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- England -- History.; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Wales -- History.
Description: This is a history of the moorlands and the part they have played in English and Welsh history over ten millennia. Ian Simmons combines the perspectives of natural science, archaeology, social history and historical geography, and draws on 40 years of exploring and studying the moorlands.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 406-407) and index.