Read Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Geological Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary

Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Geological Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary

Christopher Somerville

4.9/5 (18535 ratings)

Description:Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville, author of The January Man and Ships of Heaven, sets out to discover how the land beneath our feet shapes our past, our present and our future. Britain is blessed with a vast variety of landscapes - from marshes to slate mountains, chalk downs to volcanic islands. How we live, work and eat has been moulded and shaped by wild, violent events that occurred thousands, millions, even billions of years ago - drownings and upheavals, the raging fires and frozen wastes that created the bones of Britain. Following the line of oldest exposed geology, from three-billion-year-old rocks at the Butt of Lewis in the far northwestern tip, down the map south eastwards to the furthest corner of Essex where new land is being recycled from old, Somerville travels across bogs and over peaks, through forests and national parks and along tow paths, revisiting old haunts and expert friends, picking out rare flora and fauna, as he uncover the changing landscape's buried secrets. Vivid, lyrical and evocative, Walking the Bones of Britain is a deep interrogation of the remarkable place we call home.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Geological Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary. To get started finding Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Geological Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 432

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: 2023

ISBN: 0857527118

Description: Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville, author of The January Man and Ships of Heaven, sets out to discover how the land beneath our feet shapes our past, our present and our future. Britain is blessed with a vast variety of landscapes - from marshes to slate mountains, chalk downs to volcanic islands. How we live, work and eat has been moulded and shaped by wild, violent events that occurred thousands, millions, even billions of years ago - drownings and upheavals, the raging fires and frozen wastes that created the bones of Britain. Following the line of oldest exposed geology, from three-billion-year-old rocks at the Butt of Lewis in the far northwestern tip, down the map south eastwards to the furthest corner of Essex where new land is being recycled from old, Somerville travels across bogs and over peaks, through forests and national parks and along tow paths, revisiting old haunts and expert friends, picking out rare flora and fauna, as he uncover the changing landscape's buried secrets. Vivid, lyrical and evocative, Walking the Bones of Britain is a deep interrogation of the remarkable place we call home.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Geological Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary. To get started finding Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Geological Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Geological Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary

Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Geological Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary

More Books

Britain and Ireland's Best Wild Places: 500 Essential Journeys

Britain and Ireland's Best Wild Places: 500 Essential Journeys

The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain

The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain

Ships Of Heaven: the story of Britain's cathedrals

Ships Of Heaven: the story of Britain's cathedrals

Coast: A Celebration of Britain's Coastal Heritage

Coast: A Celebration of Britain's Coastal Heritage

The View from the Hill: Four Seasons in a Walker’s Britain (Armchair Traveller)

The View from the Hill: Four Seasons in a Walker’s Britain (Armchair Traveller)

The Golden Step: A Walk through the Heart of Crete (Armchair Traveller)

The Golden Step: A Walk through the Heart of Crete (Armchair Traveller)

Somerville's 100 Best British Walks

Somerville's 100 Best British Walks

Never Eat Shredded Wheat: The Geography We've Lost and How to Find it Again

Never Eat Shredded Wheat: The Geography We've Lost and How to Find it Again

Walking in Ireland: 50 Walks Through the Heart and Soul of Ireland

Walking in Ireland: 50 Walks Through the Heart and Soul of Ireland