The Making of the British Landscape

The Making of the British Landscape

by Francis Pryor
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Publication Date: 03/06/2010

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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.

ISBN:
9780141943367
9780141943367
Category:
British & Irish history
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
03-06-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Francis Pryor

Francis Pryor is one of Britain's most distinguished living archaeologists, and the excavator of Flag Fen.

He is the author of Home, Britain BC, Britain AD, Seahenge and The Making Of The British Landscape.

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