Author

Publication

2018 - Allen Lane

Language

English

Word Count

34,750 words, Guess

Page Count

139 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780241299982
  • ISBN-100241299985
  • OCLC Control Number1005114054
  • Better World Books9780241299982
  • Better World BooksKS-457-940
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCDA600
  • LCCDA600 .P78 2018

Description

Landscapes reflect and shape our behaviour. They make us who we are and bear witness to the shifting patterns of human life over the generations. Formed by a complex series of natural and human processes, they rarely yield their secrets readily. Bringing to bear a lifetime's digging, Francis Pryor delves into England's hidden urban and rural landscapes, from Whitby Abbey to the navvy camp at Risehill in Cumbria, from Tintagel to Tottenham's Broadwater Farm. Scattered through fields, woods, moors, roads, tracks and towns, he reveals the stories of our physical surroundings and what they meant to the people who formed them, used them and lived in them. These landscapes, he stresses, are our common physical inheritance. If we can understand how to make them yield up their secrets, it will help us, their guardians, to maintain and shape them for future generations.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Paths to the Past: Encounters with England's Hidden LandscapesAllen Lane2018-01-01

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