High Dartmoor Land And People

Author : Eric Hemery
Publisher : Robert Hale
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013309722

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High Dartmoor, Land and People by Eric Hemery Pdf

This book about England's last great wilderness, as it is often called, is a systematic topographical and historical survey of Dartmoor by watersheds, and the first to deal comprehensively with the region since the celebrated guide of 1908 by William Crossing. Every river country has its map showing courses and names of even the smallest tributary streams. Authentic place-names are featured in the book, their origin in usage and tradition being traced back wherever possible. High Dartmoor traces the formation of the great granite upland from its inception as molten magma to the heather-cloaked moorland we know today, on which the first settlers built their homes and monuments nearly four thousand years ago. Something of the mystery, enigma and drama of this vast and remarkable moorland, and certainly its atmosphere, sound an echo in these pages, and the lives of the moormen and their families over several centuries are described in detail. explanation is given of every type of feature described in the text, and the illustrated note on the physical pattern of the valleys, which makes clear that, far from being an expanse of moorland conceived in a haphazard fit by nature, Dartmoor is possessed of a physical symmetry. Never before has the Moor been meticulously recorded in word and picture. High Dartmoor will remain for a long time to come the definitive work on the subject.

Author : Sophie Pierce
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781800181816

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The Green Hill by Sophie Pierce Pdf

In 2017, Sophie Pierce’s life changed forever when her twenty-year-old son Felix died suddenly and unexpectedly. Thrown into an unimaginable new reality, she had to find a way to survive. By writing letters to Felix – composed during walks and swims taken close to his burial place by the River Dart – Sophie gradually learned how to live in the landscape of sudden loss, navigating the weather and tides of grief. The Green Hill collects these letters alongside Sophie’s account of the years following Felix’s death, into which she weaves poignant memories of his life. What results is a deeply moving, beautifully captured record of how – amid the rivers and rocks of Dartmoor, and in the sea off the South Devon coast – Sophie was able to hold on to and nurture her bond with Felix, both in her mind and through a physical engagement with the landscape: actively mourning, rather than grieving. This book is a celebration of the natural world and the role it plays in our lives and relationships, as well as an examination of how beauty, a sense of place and the passing seasons can help us contend with our own mortality. Above all, The Green Hill is one woman’s story of navigating through trauma and loss, and towards a fragile, complicated kind of joy. 'In The Green Hill, Sophie Pierce writes about the sudden death of her son Felix with an aching and gentle honesty. Struggling to come to terms with the loss not only of the young man he was, but everything that he would eventually become, she finds herself overwhelmed not only by grief, but also by love. Her writing is illuminated by a remarkable attention to the beauty and consolation of the natural world, and by the wisdom and tenderness which has been so painfully acquired. This is a book that will be a great comfort to those who need it' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth 'Unforgettable, necessary. This beautiful book is a map, compass and ration of courage for anyone arrived in the landscape of sudden loss. Full of love and learning' Tanya Shadrick 'The Green Hill is an extraordinary book... I thought of the fairy tale in which a captured princess must weave clothes from stinging nettles: Sophie Pierce has wrought something beautiful and useful from the darkest pain' Cressida Connolly, novelist and critic

Author : James Macdonald Lockhart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226470580

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Raptor by James Macdonald Lockhart Pdf

As evidenced by the incredible success of Helen MacDonald's H is for Hawk, and the legions of fans of Pale Male, the incredible red-tailed hawk of 5th avenue, we are full of rapture for raptors. James Macdonald Lockhart, is among the many who have sought out these incredible birds, and in this lyrical work of natural history he seeks out 15 different raptors, in 15 different landscapes across England: a journey in search of raptors, a journey through the birds and into their worlds. Raptors are by nature scarce and extremely elusive. Of Pandionidae (osprey), Accipitridae (broad-winged harrier, eagle, buzzard, red kite) and Falconidae (peregrine, sparrowhawk etc.) only widespread buzzards, kestrels and kites are easily seen. Lockhart follows loosely the trail of 19th-century Scottish naturalist and artist William MacGillivray (1796-1852), As Philip Hoare wrote of it, James MacDonald Lockhart puts the rapture back in the raptor. This is in-the-moment writing, raw in beak and claw. With its gorgeously felt sense of life and place, Raptor rips at its words, turning them into exquisite portraits of the utter wild, shaping soaring, obsessive beauty out of the British landscape and its imperial birds"

Author : C. R. Blick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000150254

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Early Metallurgical Sites in Great Britain by C. R. Blick Pdf

This book provides a list of important archaeologically authenticated sites in Britain pre-dating the time that Columbus crossed the Atlantic. It will be of interest to all those who wish to see the visible remains of the work of the early metallurgists.

Author : P. Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135794934

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British Sources of Information by P. Jackson Pdf

This comprehensive and versatile reference source will be a most important tool for anyone wishing to seek out information on virtually any aspect of British affairs, life and culture. The resources of a detailed bibliography, directory and journals listing are combined in this single volume, forming a unique guide to a multitude of diverse topics - British politics, government, society, literature, thought, arts, economics, history and geography. Academic subjects as taught in British colleges and universities are covered, with extensive reading lists of books and journals and sources of information for each discipline, making this an invaluable manual.

Author : Todd Gray,Margery M. Rowe,Audrey M. Erskine
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0859893847

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Tudor and Stuart Devon by Todd Gray,Margery M. Rowe,Audrey M. Erskine Pdf

A collection of essays on the theme of Tudor and Stuart Devon. Subjects studied include Katherine Courtney, Countess of Devon; tinworking in four Devon stannaries; the legislative activities of local MPs during the reign of Elizabeth; landed society and the emergence of the country house; North Devon maritime enterprise; English wine imports, with special reference to the Devon ports- fishing and the commercial world of early Stuart Dartmouth; the clergy in Devon, 1641-1661.

Author : Derek Gow
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781915294555

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Hunt for the Shadow Wolf [US Edition] by Derek Gow Pdf

"Terrific, life-lit moments come howling out of Hunt for the Shadow Wolf."—The Telegraph "[Derek Gow is] a wry, profane truth teller who is equal parts yeoman farmer, historical ecologist, and pirate."—Ben Goldfarb, author of Eager and Crossings "Beautifully crafted, fascinating and unbearably poignant, I totally loved this book."—Isabella Tree, author of Wilding Renowned rewilder Derek Gow has a dream: that one day we will see the return of the wolf to Britain as it has already returned elsewhere. As Derek worked to reintroduce the beaver, he began to hear stories of the wolf, both real and mythical, and his fascination with this creature grew. With increasing curiosity, Derek started to piece together fragments of information, stories and artefacts to reveal a shadowy creature that first walked proud through these lands and then was hunted to extinction as coexistence turned to fear, hatred – and domination. What Derek came to realize was that the underlying motives behind our hatred were actually far more prosaic and, like most persecutions, to do with power and profit. We turned the wolf into a savage beast and saw its extirpation as a civilizing mission. But the wolf survived far longer than many thought and Derek tells of his sightings of the wolf through folklore and mythology, the records of grand estates and parish churches as well as wolf heads, both real and recreated. With bitingly funny but also tender stories, Hunt for the Shadow Wolf is Derek’s quest to uncover the true nature of this creature because, as we seek to heal our landscape, we must reconcile our relationship with it. Before we can even begin to bring the wolf back, we need to understand it. "I have loved this chase dearly and though what unfolds might be an ending of sorts, I have no intention to let this hunt cease."―Derek Gow, from Hunt for the Shadow Wolf "Gow reinvents what it means to be a guardian of the countryside."—The Guardian

Author : Martin Shaw
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789651553

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Bardskull by Martin Shaw Pdf

Bardskull is the record of three journeys made by Martin Shaw, the celebrated storyteller and interpreter of myth, in the year before he turned fifty. It is unlike anything he has written before. This is not a book about myth or narrative: rather, it is a sequence of incantations, a series of battles. Each of the three journeys sees Shaw walk alone into a Dartmoor forest and wait. What arrive are stories – fragments of myth that he has carried within him for decades: the deep history of Dartmoor itself; the lives of distant family members; Arthurian legend; and tales from India, Persia, Lapland, the Caucasus and Siberia. But these stories and their tellers don’t arrive as the bearers of solace or easy wisdom. As with all quests, Shaw is entering a domain of traps and tests. Bardskull can be read as a fable, as memoir, as auto-fiction or as an attempt to undomesticate myth. It is a magnificent, unclassifiable work of the imagination.

Author : Eric Hemery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001715989

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Historic Dart by Eric Hemery Pdf

Author : John Weir
Publisher : Michael Joseph
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UIUC:30112029076814

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Dartmoor National Park by John Weir Pdf

DESCRIBED AS THE LAST WILDERNESS IN SOUTHERN BRITAIN, DARMOOR'S FASCINATING HISTORY GOES BACK TO EARLIEST TIMES. EVIDENCE FOR THIS ABOUNDS, FROM PREHISTORIC CAIRNS, ENCLOSURES AND STANDING STONES TO IRON AGE HILLFORTS, ANGLO-SAXON SETTLEMENT PATTERNS AND MEDIEVAL AND LATER INDUSTRIES SUCH AS TINNING, PEAT WORKING AND GRANITE QUARRYING. AT ITS EDGE IT IS A LANDSCAPE OF SMALL FIELDS, HEDGEBANKS AND STONE WALLS, GIVING WAY TO THE MOORLAND FRINGE OF CASTELLATED TORS, NARROW, GORGE-LIKE VALLEYS AND FINALLY TO TWO UNBROKEN MOORLAND PLATEAUX - THE HEART OF THE MOOR. SOME EIGHT MILLION VISITS ARE MADE TO DARTMOOR NATIONAL PARK EACH YEAR, A TESTAMENT TO ITS UNUSUAL BEAUTY AND RICH HISTORY.

Author : Stephen Neale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781844865710

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Wild Camping by Stephen Neale Pdf

From getting back to nature with a tent, some matches and a few litres of bottled water, to enjoying a pub dinner and camping out in the garden afterwards, this book shows how to get stuck into wild camping in all its forms. Beautiful wildernesses; tiny budgets; environmentally-friendly... What's not to like? There's an idea that wild camping is illegal in Britain, but it isn't – you just need to know the rules and where to go. This guide will open up this amazing experience for all, covering: - what is wild camping and why bother? - different types (bivvying, tenting, hammocking, on the water) - what the law says (Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Ireland, EU, waterways) - how many of the largest landowners in the UK are actively encouraging wild camping - getting started (vital equipment, where to go, when to go, safety) - drinking water and foraging for food The majority of the book features the best places to go in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, along with stories, tips, helpful maps and inspiring photos. The new edition includes a Foreword by Ed Stafford, as well as a completely new chapter introducing the exciting new English Coastal Path, opening 2020 after years of campaigning. This fully updated guide will give readers the knowledge and the inspiration to escape the noise, clutter and stress of day to day life and go wild.

Author : Michelle Dibb
Publisher : History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0752459295

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Dartmoor by Michelle Dibb Pdf

A history of Dartmoor

Author : Michael Huxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Geography
ISBN : UOM:39015014637519

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The Geographical Magazine by Michael Huxley Pdf

Vols. for 19 - include a separate section called GM; news and reviews.

Author : Ann Bowen,John Pallister
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0435351702

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Understanding GCSE Geography by Ann Bowen,John Pallister Pdf

This Foundation book has simplified text covering the same material as the core student book (with the same pagination). Written to AQA/A specification, it encourages the development of geographical skills. There are activity and test questions, and guidance for students on tackling coursework.

Author : Marie-Françoise André
Publisher : Presses Univ Blaise Pascal
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Physical geography
ISBN : 9782845163355

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Du continent au bassin versant by Marie-Françoise André Pdf