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Nicholas Crane's new book brilliantly describes the evolution of England's countryside and cities. It is part journey, part history, and it concludes with awkward questions about the future of England's landscapes. Nick Crane's story begins with the melting tongues of glaciers and the emergence of a gigantic game-park tentatively being explored by a vanguard of Mesolithic adventurers who have taken the long, northward hike across the land bridge from the continent. The Iron Age develops into a pre-Roman 'Golden Era' and Nick Crane looks at what the Romans did (and didn't) contribute to the English landscape. Major landscape 'events' (Black Death, enclosures, urbanisation, recreation, etc.) are fully described and explored, and he weaves in the the role played by geology in shaping our cities, industry and recreation, the effect of climate (and the Gulf Stream), and of global economics (the Lancashire valleys were formed by overseas markets). The co-presenter of BBC's 'Coast' also covers the extraordinary benefits bestowed by a 6,000-mile coastline. The 10,000-year story of the English landscape culminates in the 21st century, which is set to be one of the most extreme centuries of change since the Ice Age. Nick Crane brilliantly illustrates how England and its landscapes became so wonderfully diverse.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Making Of The British Landscape
• Author: Nicholas Crane
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 592
• EAN: 9780297856665
• ISBN: 0297856669
• ID: 04572301
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• Weight: 956 g
• Dimensions: 168 × 242 × 52 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. October 2016

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