Landscape Detective: Discovering a Countryside

Landscape Detective: Discovering a Countryside

by RichardMuir (Author)

Synopsis

The countryside is a gigantic puzzle which contains within it the keys to its own history. This book takes the reader through the process of landscape detection, by way of a journey through a fascinating landscape in the Yorkshire Dalc; The countryside is a gigantic puzzle which contains within it the keys to its own history. This book takes the reader through the process of landscape detection, by way of a journey through a fascinating landscape in the Yorkshire Dales. Richard Muir shoes how exploring landscape history can be compared to investigating a crime. The detective analyses different kinds of evidence to contruct what happened, when and why. Along the way he or she has to interpret all sorts of complex material. Gradually, as the evidence accumulates, the past comest

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 146
Publisher: Windgather Press
Published: 24 Apr 2001

ISBN 10: 0953863026
ISBN 13: 9780953863020

Author Bio
Dr. Richard Muir is one of Britain's leading landscape historians. he is the author of The New Reading the Landscape (2000) and many other books. He edits the journal Landscapes, which is also published by Windgather Pre