Underlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Landscape: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Landscapes - Softcover

Nield, Ted

 
9781847086723: Underlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Landscape: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Landscapes
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1847086721 ISBN 13: 9781847086723
Verlag: Granta Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Not so long ago, our roads, buildings, gravestones and monuments were built from local rock, our cities were powered by coal from Welsh mines, and our lamps were lit with paraffin from Scottish shale. We live among the remnants of those times but for the most part our mines are gone, our buildings are no longer local, and the flow of stone travels east to west.

Spurred on by the erasure of history and industry, Ted Nield journeyed across this buried landscape: from the small Welsh village where his mining ancestors were born and died, to Swansea, Aberdeen, East Lothian, Surrey and Dorset. Nield unearths the veins of coal, stone, oil, rock and clay that make up the country beneath our feet, exploring what the loss of kinship between past and present means for Britain and the rest of the world today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

TED NIELD holds a doctorate in geology and works for the Geological Society of London as Editor of the monthly magazine Geoscientist. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society and a member of the Meteoritical Society. He is the author of Supercontinent (2007) and Incoming! (2011). He lives in London.

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Verlag
Granta Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847086721
ISBN 13 
9781847086723
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Anzahl der Seiten
304
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