Illustrated History of the Countryside

In every English field, tree, hedge, and pond lie clues to the secrets of the past -- and this handbook will inaugurate you into those mysteries, revealing how to do "rural detection" and interpret the evidence nature has left for us. With the aid of more than 100 brilliant landscape photographs, and a writer of eloquence and wisdom, go on eight guided walks in areas of outstanding beauty -- into farmland and forest, moorland and sea, marshes and fen.Rackham, Oliver is the author of 'Illustrated History of the Countryside', published 2000 under ISBN 9781857999532 and ISBN 1857999533.