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Carregando... The Making Of The British Landscape (edição: 2017)de Nicholas Crane (Autor)
Informações da ObraThe Making Of The British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present de Nicholas Crane
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Not having read a book like this about human geography before, I found this really enjoyable, with plenty of interesting anecdotes to illustrate the points being made. However, I feel that too much time was spent on the early chapters about prehistoric Britain, and too little descriptive analysis of the past 100 to 150 years. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
How much do we really know about the place we call 'home'? In this sweeping, timely book, Nicholas Crane tells the story of Britain. Over the course of 12,000 years of continuous human occupation, the British landscape has been transformed form a European peninsula of glacier and tundra to an island of glittering cities and exquisite countryside. In this geographical journey through time, we discover the ancient relationship between people and place and the deep-rooted tensions between town and countryside. From tsunamis to Roman debacles, from henge to high-rise and hamlet to metropolis, this is a book about change and adaptation. As Britain lurches towards a more sustainable future, it is the story of our age. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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For a small island we have so much history that is both deeply fascinating and complex. Nick Crane has had a good stab at distilling all of that into a single book, but it cannot be anymore that an overview. It is fairly well written, the narrative is full of detail and fascinating anecdotes, but I’m not completely sure why he has ended up writing a history book, though there is some overlap in what he has done with Coast. Overall, it is not bad. I have read most of his books so far, and I must say that I prefer his travel books to this. ( )