Britain BC
by Francis Pryor |
The Making of the English Landscape
by W. G. Hoskins | 
A History of Ancient Britain
by Neil Oliver |
Britain AD
by Francis Pryor | 
Dead Wake
by Erik Larson | 
One Summer: America, 1927
by Bill Bryson | 
Six Frigates
by Ian W. Toll |
102 Minutes
by Jim Dwyer | 
The History of Jihad
by Robert Spencer | 
Five Days at Memorial
by Sheri Fink |
The Oregon Trail
by Rinker Buck | 
The History of Surfing
by Matt Warshaw | 
Washington's Immortals
by Patrick K. O'Donnell | 
American Gun
by Chris Kyle | 
No Way Out
by Mitch Weiss | 
Swords and Swordsmen
by Mike Loades |
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
by Gale R. Owen-Crocker | 
Season of the Witch
by David Talbot |
Almost a Miracle
by John Ferling | 
War Bonds
by Cindy Hval |
This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded, from the ceremonial landscapes of Stonehenge to the spread of the railways - evidence of how man's effect on Britain is everywhere. In "The Making of the British Landscape", eminent historian, archaeologist and farmer, Francis Pryor explains how to read these clues to understand the fascinating history of our land and of how people have lived on it throughout time. Covering both the urban and rural and packed with pictures, maps and drawings showing everything from how we can still pick out Bronze Age fields on Bodmin Moor to how the Industrial Revolution really changed our landscape, this book makes us look afresh at our surroundings and really see them for the first time.