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The Making of the British Landscape Francis Pryor

The Making of the British Landscape By Francis Pryor

The Making of the British Landscape by Francis Pryor


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Summary

Tells the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. This book explains how to read these clues to understand the fascinating history of our land and of how people have lived on it throughout time. It covers both the urban and rural.

The Making of the British Landscape Summary

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

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.

The Making of the British Landscape Reviews

Pryor is that rare combination of a first-rate working archaeologist and a good writer, with the priceless ability of being able to explain complex ideas clearly. This is popular archaeology at its best. Times Higher Educational Supplement The British landscape is as rich a source of inspiration as ever and this book makes an excellent companion guide. -- Margaret Drabble Telegraph Generously informative and challenging...compelling -- Jonathan Keates Sunday Telegraph Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it. -- Kathryn Hughes Guardian

About Francis Pryor

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.

Additional information

GOR003097608
9781846142055
1846142059
The Making of the British Landscape: How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today by Francis Pryor
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
20100603
848
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