The Making of the English Landscape: Dorset

by Christopher Taylor (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $4.66

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $3.27

• Used

  Hardcover
  2005

  $4.16

  'No one before has ever brought out with quite the same vividness the historical background of the country all around us' - Guardian - a classic of English landscape history, reissued in its fiftieth anniversary year. First published in 1955 by Hodder, The Making Of The English Landscape is a classic of English history. It was the first book to study, literally, the history of the landscape, and also the first to explode the myth that the English landscape was 'formed by enclosures'. Instead W. G. Hoskins traces the beauty and oddities of the English landscape further back, from pre-Roman times to the seventeenth century and beyond. Hoskins explains the layers of history in the landscape by taking the reader with him along Devonshire lanes, past lost villages in Lincolnshire, and through the pastures of upland Northamptonshire. This is a delightful book, readable and scholarly, which has been much-loved by readers for the past fifty years.

• New

  Paperback
  1991

  $128.70

  Deals with the historical evolution of the English landscape as we know it. It dispels the popular belief that the pattern of the land is a result of 18th-century enclosures and attributes it instead to a much longer evolution. This book traces the chronological development of the English landscape from pre-Roman days to the eve of the Black Death, onwards to the Industrial Revolution and up to the present day. With the help of photographs and charts, Professor Hopkins discusses the origins of Devonshire hedge-banks and lanes, the ruined churches in Norfolk and lost villages in Lincolnshire, Somerset's marshland ditches, Cornwall's remote granite farmsteads and the lonely pastures of upland Northamptonshire.