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Paths to the Past: Encounters with Britain's Hidden Landscapes

Paths to the Past: Encounters with Britain's Hidden Landscapes

by Francis Pryor (Author), Francis Pryor (Author)

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    Hardcover 2018

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Synopsis

Discover the hidden corners and forgotten crevices of Britain's landscapes, from lost rural treasures to unseen urban gems. 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. Bringing to bear a lifetime's digging, archaeologist Francis Pryor delves into Britain's hidden urban and rural landscapes, from Whitby Abbey to the navvy camp at Risehill in Cumbria, from Tintagel to Tottenham's Broadwater Farm. 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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 160
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 01 Mar 2018
ISBN 10: 0241299985
ISBN 13: 9780241299982
Book Overview: Discover the hidden corners and forgotten crevices of England's landscapes, from lost rural treasures to unseen urban gems.

Media Reviews
Praise for Home: 'Pryor is a master storyteller... polite, informative, madly curious and at times as wide-eyed and cheeky as a schoolboy... Home is a thought-provoking discourse on the changing nature of prehistory family life [and] can be read from cover to cover like a novel' * BBC History *
Under his gaze, the land starts to fill with tribes and clans wandering this way and that, leaving traces that can still be seen today . . . Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it * Guardian *
A deeply sympathetic and practical engagement with what might have been involved in living in a prehistoric family ... Home was where the quern was * Times Literary Supplement *
A fascinating and important story about how our ancestors lived, worked, thought, worshipped and organised themselves. * Daily Telegraph *
As archaeologist and broadcaster Francis Pryor explores in his excellently written, semi-autobiographical new book, the family was just as important then as it is now. By exploring what we can learn from the evidence left behind, Pryor also reveals the ways in which archaeology can tell us about ordinary lives ... Pryor is a hugely entertaining writer. * historyrevealed.com *
Author Bio
Former president of the Council for British Archaeology, Dr Francis Pryor has spent over thirty years studying our prehistory. He has excavated sites as diverse as Bronze Age farms, field systems and entire Iron Age villages. He appeared frequently on TV's Time Team and is the author of The Making of the British Landscape, Seahenge, as well as Britain BC and Britain AD, both of which he adapted and presented as Channel 4 series.