Author: H. C. Darby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107402980
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
The text is ambitious in scope, reflecting the author's position as a historical geographer, and covers a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from geology to socio-economic analysis. Numerous illustrative figures are contained, including maps, diagrams and photographs of the area, and a bibliography is also provided.
The Draining of the Fens
Author: H. C. Darby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107402980
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
The text is ambitious in scope, reflecting the author's position as a historical geographer, and covers a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from geology to socio-economic analysis. Numerous illustrative figures are contained, including maps, diagrams and photographs of the area, and a bibliography is also provided.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107402980
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
The text is ambitious in scope, reflecting the author's position as a historical geographer, and covers a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from geology to socio-economic analysis. Numerous illustrative figures are contained, including maps, diagrams and photographs of the area, and a bibliography is also provided.
Marshlands
Author: Matthew George Hatvany
Publisher: Presses Université Laval
ISBN: 9782763780498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher: Presses Université Laval
ISBN: 9782763780498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Lost Fens
Author: Ian D. Rotherham
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752492683
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The loss of the great fenlands of eastern England is the greatest single removal of ecology in our history. So thorough was the process that most visitors to the regions, or even people living there, have little idea of what has gone. For many, the Fenlands are the vast expansive flatlands of intensive farming, the 'breadbaskets' of Britain. Lost are the vast flocks of wetland birds that filled the evening skies in winter, the frozen wetlands and the fen skaters of the winter, and the abundant black terns or breeding wading birds of the summer months. However, pause a while off main roads and consider place names and road names: Fenny Lane, The Withies, Commonside, Reed Holme, Fen Common, Turbary Lane, Wildmore, Adventurers' Fen, Wicken Fen, and more; they tell a story of a landscape now gone but once hugely important. The Fens bred revolution and civil war and paid the penalty. They nurtured religious non-conformism with global impact. After 1066, the Saxons withheld the Normans' onslaught, and in the 1970s, unting's Beavers took action against twentieth-century invaders. The fenscapes, neither water nor land but something in-between, breed independence and, if necessary, dissention. This story is of politically and economically driven ecological catastrophe and loss. So much has gone, but we do not even know fully what was there before. With global environmental change, and especially climate change, fenlands once again have major roles in our sustainable futures.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752492683
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The loss of the great fenlands of eastern England is the greatest single removal of ecology in our history. So thorough was the process that most visitors to the regions, or even people living there, have little idea of what has gone. For many, the Fenlands are the vast expansive flatlands of intensive farming, the 'breadbaskets' of Britain. Lost are the vast flocks of wetland birds that filled the evening skies in winter, the frozen wetlands and the fen skaters of the winter, and the abundant black terns or breeding wading birds of the summer months. However, pause a while off main roads and consider place names and road names: Fenny Lane, The Withies, Commonside, Reed Holme, Fen Common, Turbary Lane, Wildmore, Adventurers' Fen, Wicken Fen, and more; they tell a story of a landscape now gone but once hugely important. The Fens bred revolution and civil war and paid the penalty. They nurtured religious non-conformism with global impact. After 1066, the Saxons withheld the Normans' onslaught, and in the 1970s, unting's Beavers took action against twentieth-century invaders. The fenscapes, neither water nor land but something in-between, breed independence and, if necessary, dissention. This story is of politically and economically driven ecological catastrophe and loss. So much has gone, but we do not even know fully what was there before. With global environmental change, and especially climate change, fenlands once again have major roles in our sustainable futures.
A Catalogue of the Library Collected by Miss Richardson Currer at Eshton Hall, Craven, Yorkshire
Author: Charles James Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library collected by Miss Richardson Currer at Eshton Hall, Craven, Yorkshire. By C. J. Stewart. [With plates.]
Author: Frances Mary Richardson CURRER
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library Collected by Miss Richardson Currer, at Eshton Hall, Craven, Yorkshire
Author: Frances Mary Richardson Currer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
An Index to the Manuscript Collections of Sir W. Dugdale, being Part 2 of the Appendix to his life, diary and correspondence
Author: William Hamper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale...
Author: William Dugdale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarians
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarians
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Land Abandoned to the Sea
Author: Stuart Oliver
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755602803
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Significant changes are affecting coastlines around the world due to economic pressures and climate change. This book addresses the social, cultural and political context of the process of managed coastal realignment, the strategic abandonment of the coast, as a means of coping with these changes. With a specific focus on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, Stuart Oliver analyses the cultural and social implications of managed retreat and proposes managed realignment as a practical way in which society can rethink itself, addressing the new realities of the environment and a move towards developing a more sustainable relationship with it.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755602803
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Significant changes are affecting coastlines around the world due to economic pressures and climate change. This book addresses the social, cultural and political context of the process of managed coastal realignment, the strategic abandonment of the coast, as a means of coping with these changes. With a specific focus on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, Stuart Oliver analyses the cultural and social implications of managed retreat and proposes managed realignment as a practical way in which society can rethink itself, addressing the new realities of the environment and a move towards developing a more sustainable relationship with it.
Waterways, Dikes, Polders, Hydraulic Engineering, Windmills Etc. in the Netherlands
Author: A. A. Beekman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401528772
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401528772
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description