The countryside is a gigantic puzzle which contains within it the keys to its own history. This book takes the reader through the process of landscape detection, by way of a journey through a fascinating landscape in the Yorkshire Dalc; The countryside is a gigantic puzzle which contains within it the keys to its own history. This book takes the reader through the process of landscape detection, by way of a journey through a fascinating landscape in the Yorkshire Dales. Richard Muir shoes how exploring landscape history can be compared to investigating a crime. The detective analyses different kinds of evidence to contruct what happened, when and why. Along the way he or she has to interpret all sorts of complex material. Gradually, as the evidence accumulates, the past comest

About the Author
Dr. Richard Muir is one of Britain's leading landscape historians. he is the author of The New Reading the Landscape (2000) and many other books. He edits the journal Landscapes, which is also published by Windgather Pre


Book Information
ISBN 9780953863020
Author Richard Muir
Format Paperback
Page Count 146
Imprint Windgather Press
Publisher Windgather Press
Weight(grams) 400g