Landscape & Gardening
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Historic Gardens and Parks of Derbyshire: Challenging Landscapes, 1570-1920 [Paperback]
Dianne Barre (Author)
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ISBN: 9781911188049
Published by : Windgather Press
Series: Windgather Press
The open hilly terrain of much of Derbyshire has long been a challenge to gardeners and landscapers, but has produced some spectacular walled and terraced gardens. Wealthy aristocrats created important and unusual pleasure gardens including the fa... .... Learn More -
Great Desert Explorers [Hardback]
Andrew Goudie (Author)
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ISBN: 9781900971454
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Desert exploration, like climbing Everest or polar expeditions, is not for the faint-hearted, and many of the vivid tales within this fascinating biographical history end in tragedy. However, the informative and absorbing descriptions of the extra... .... Learn More -
Shades of Green: An Environmental and Cultural History of Sitka Spruce [Paperback]
Ruth Tittensor (Author)
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ISBN: 9781909686779
Published by : Windgather Press
Sitka spruce has contributed to the Pacific Coast landscapes of North America for over ten millennia. For the Tlingit First Nationit is the most important tree in terms of spiritual relationships, art, and products in daily use such as canoes, con... .... Learn More -
Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World: History, Myth and Archaeology [Paperback]
Linda Farrar (Author)
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ISBN: 9781909686854
Published by : Windgather Press
A beautifully illustrated book tracing the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine, Islamic and Persian gardens right up to the M... .... Learn More -
Hunters, fishers and foragers in Wales: Towards a social narrative of Mesolithic lifeways [Paperback]
Malcolm Lillie (Author)
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ISBN: 9781782979746
Published by : Oxbow Books
Malcolm Lillie presents a major new holistic appraisal of the evidence for the Mesolithic occupation of Wales. The story begins with a discourse on the Palaeolithic background. In order to set the entire Mesolithic period into its context, subsequ... .... Learn More -
Dury and Andrews’ Map of Hertfordshire [Paperback]
Andrew Macnair (Author); Anne Rowe (Author); Tom Williamson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781909686731
Published by : Windgather Press
This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London map-makers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews. For well over two centuries, from the time of Elizabeth I to the late 18th century, the county wa... .... Learn More -
Norfolk Landscapes [Hardback]
Doug Kennedy (Author)
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ISBN: 9781909686816
Published by : Windgather Press
Norfolk is a very distinctive county, the most easterly in the British Isles. With the North Sea and The Wash to the east and north it is relatively close to the Netherlands, but Norwich is only a couple of hours by train from London. It has been ... .... Learn More -
North Downs Landscapes [Hardback]
Doug Kennedy (Author)
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ISBN: 9781909686588
Published by : Windgather Press
The North Downs are a range of hills that run east-west from the south-east tip of England, at Dover in Kent, to Farnham in Surrey. They skirt the southern edge of London, so for a long time have offered Londoners beautiful countryside to escape t... .... Learn More
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