Walking The Bones Of Britain
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Author |
: Christopher Somerville |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 2023-08-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781473576834 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1473576830 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Walking the Bones of Britain by : Christopher Somerville
‘Somerville’s infectious enthusiasm and wry humour infuse his journey from the Isle of Lewis to southern England, revealing our rich geological history with vibrant local and natural history’ Observer ‘A meticulous exploration of the ground beneath our feet. Glorious’ Katharine Norbury ‘A remarkable achievement’ Tom Chesshyre ‘His writing is utterly enticing’ Country Walking ............................................................................................................................................... The influence Britain’s geology has had on our daily lives is profound. While we may be unaware of it, every aspect of our history has been affected by events that happened ten thousand, a million, or a thousand million years ago. In Walking the Bones of Britain, Christopher Somerville takes a journey of a thousand miles, beginning in the far north, at the three-billion-year-old rocks of the Isle of Lewis, formed when the world was still molten, and travelling south-eastwards to the furthest corner of Essex, where new land is being formed. Crossing bogs, scaling peaks and skirting quarry pits, he unearths the stories bound up in the layers of rock beneath our feet, and examines how they have influenced everything from how we farm to how we build our houses, from the Industrial Revolution to the current climate crisis. Told with characteristic humour and insight, this gripping exploration of the British landscape and its remarkable history cannot fail to change the way you see the world beyond your door. ‘Somerville is a walker’s writer’ Nicholas Crane
Author |
: Robert Twigger |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2020-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474609074 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474609074 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Walking the Great North Line by : Robert Twigger
Robert Twigger, poet and travel author, was in search of a new way up England when he stumbled across the Great North Line. From Christchurch on the South Coast to Old Sarum to Stonehenge, to Avebury, to Notgrove barrow, to Meon Hill in the midlands, to Thor's Cave, to Arbor Low stone circle, to Mam Tor, to Ilkley in Yorkshire and its three stone circles and the Swastika Stone, to several forts and camps in Northumberland to Lindisfarne (plus about thirty more sites en route). A single dead straight line following 1 degree 50 West up Britain. No other north-south straight line goes through so many ancient sites of such significance. Was it just a suggestive coincidence or were they built intentionally? Twigger walks the line, which takes him through Birmingham, Halifax and Consett as well as Salisbury Plain, the Peak district, and the Yorkshire moors. With a planning schedule that focused more on reading about shamanism and beat poetry than hardening his feet up, he sets off ever hopeful. He wild-camps along the way, living like a homeless bum, with a heart that starts stifled but ends up soaring with the beauty of life. He sleeps in a prehistoric cave, falls into a river, crosses a 'suicide viaduct' and gets told off by a farmer's wife for trespassing; but in this simple life he finds woven gold. He walks with others and he walks alone, ever alert to the incongruities of the edgelands he is journeying through.
Author |
: Christopher Somerville |
Publisher |
: Hodder & Stoughton |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 2010-08-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781848948693 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1848948697 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Never Eat Shredded Wheat by : Christopher Somerville
Bognor Regis...Aberystwyth...Glasgow...Can you place them on a map? Most people can't these days. What kind of countryside do you pass through on your way to the Cairngorms, or the Fens, or Northumberland? What's north of the Pennines? And what's it like when you get there? Most folk wouldn't have a clue. Increasing numbers of us don't have a basic geographical notion of these islands. Blame it on a decline in formal geography teaching, or Sat-Nav and other 'A to Z and nothing in between' devices that make us lazy -- we are becoming the best travelled and least well orientated Britons ever seen. Now Christopher Somerville, bestselling author of Coast and many other books of UK exploration, presents the basics of what belongs where, which counties border one another, and what lies beyond the Watford Gap. He reminds us of the watery bits, the lumpy bits and the flat bits, and gets to grips with the smaller islands surrounding Britain -- and much more. Never Eat Shredded Wheat is a reminder of all the fascinating British geography once learned at school - geography that brings our islands vividly to life - geography which we have forgotten, or never even knew.
Author |
: Francis Pryor |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 568 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000094648965 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Britain B.C. by : Francis Pryor
Based on new archaeological finds, this book introduces a novel rethinking of the whole of British history before the coming of the Romans. So many extraordinary archaeological discoveries (many of them involving the author) have been made since the early 1970s that our whole understanding of British prehistory needs to be updated. So far only the specialists have twigged on to these developments; now, Francis Pryor broadcasts them to a much wider, general audience. Aided by aerial photography, coastal erosion (which has helped expose such coastal sites as Seahenge) and new planning legislation which requires developers to excavate the land they build on, archaeologists have unearthed a far more sophisticated life among the Ancient Britons than has been previously supposed. Far from being the woaded barbarians of Roman propaganda, we Brits had our own religion, laws, crafts, arts, trade, farms, priesthood and royalty. And the Scots, English and Welsh were fundamentally one and the same people.
Author |
: Christopher Somerville |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2017-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781473527133 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1473527139 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The January Man by : Christopher Somerville
'Evocatively written and charming' - Countryfile 'The January Man is a book that makes you want to pull on your boots, grab a map and get out there' - Country Life The January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder's 'The January Man'. Month by month, season by season and region by region, Christopher Somerville walks the British Isles, following routes that continually bring his father to mind. As he travels the country - from the winter floodlands of the River Severn to the lambing pastures of Nidderdale, the towering seabird cliffs on the Shetland Isle of Foula in June and the ancient oaks of Sherwood Forest in autumn - he describes the history, wildlife, landscapes and people he encounters, down back lanes and old paths, in rain and fair weather. This exquisitely written account of the British countryside not only inspires us to don our boots and explore the 140,000 miles of footpaths across the British Isles, but also illustrates how, on long-distance walks, we can come to an understanding of ourselves and our fellow walkers. Over the hills and along the byways, Christopher Somerville examines what moulded the men of his father's generation - so reticent about their wartime experiences, so self-effacing, upright and dutiful - as he searches for 'the man inside the man' that his own father really was.
Author |
: Nicholas Redman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822035256460 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Whales' Bones of the British Isles by : Nicholas Redman
Artforms grew out of a desire to introduce art through an engaging visual experience. It is written and designed to help readers build an informed foundation for individual understanding and enjoyment of art. By introducing art theory, practice, and history in a single volume, this book aims to draw readers nto a new or expanded awareness of the visual arts.
Author |
: Sarah Raughley |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 496 |
Release |
: 2021-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781534453562 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1534453563 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bones of Ruin by : Sarah Raughley
"An African tightrope walker who cannot die gets involved with a mysterious society that's convinced the world is ending and is drafted into the fight-to-the-death Tournament of Freaks, where she learns the terrible truth of who and what she really is"--
Author |
: Paul M.M. Cooper |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2020-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781408879429 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1408879425 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis All Our Broken Idols by : Paul M.M. Cooper
'Superbly told' The Times 'Richly imagined' Sunday Times 'An engrossing, seamlessly written deliberation on the enduring power of art' Mail on Sunday Assyria, in the reign of Ashurbanipal. For Aurya and Sharo, every day is a struggle for survival. One evening, everything changes. Soon, they are on the barge of King Ashurbanipal, bound for the city of Nineveh. Their fates become inextricably bound to that of the king – and the injured lion captured by his men. Twenty-six centuries later, British-Iraqi archaeologist Katya joins a dig in Mosul to protect the ancient ruins of Nineveh from looters. But the real world crashes in to their studious idyll when ISIL storm Mosul – and take Katya, Salim and local girl Lola hostage. 'Dual timeline novels often fail: one strand is more interesting than the other, or the links between the two are contrived. Not here. Both stories are superbly told and share the same preoccupation – the coexistence of cruelty and creative beauty' The Times, Historical Novel of the Month
Author |
: Laurie Lee |
Publisher |
: David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781567923926 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1567923925 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by : Laurie Lee
"I was nineteen years old, still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune. I carried a small rolled-up tent, a violin in a blanket, a change of clothes, a tin of treacle biscuits, and some cheese. I was excited, vain-glorious, knowing I had far to go; but not, as yet, how far." Despite this romantic and optimistic opening, what Lee finds is the most primitive and feudal country in Europe, a peninsula untouched by the modern world, a land of labor without dignity, a church devoid of compassion, and a country ripe for revolutionary change.
Author |
: Automobile Association (Great Britain) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0749566108 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780749566104 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Book of Britain's Walks by : Automobile Association (Great Britain)