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Quartz and Feldspar: Dartmoor - A British Landscape in Modern .
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780099552550
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Quartz and Feldspar: Dartmoor-A British Landscape in Modern Times
- Item Height
- 198mm
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Topic
- Local History, Geography & Geosciences, Natural History
- Item Width
- 129mm
- Item Weight
- 404g
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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The history of Dartmoor, home of myth and legend, druids, prisoners and ponies. Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite bosses punctuating Britain's southwest peninsula. A miserable place of rain and bog or a sunny upland of exquisite natural beauty, here the elements are raw, the sky huge and nature seems ascendant. But it is no less a place made by human beings. Stone circles, crosses, dwellings and boundaries speak of the ancient, medieval and modern people that extracted a living from the moorscape and created what it is today. Where convicts are incarcerated, backpackers roam freely; where commoners graze livestock, the army is trained; where the National Park Authority exercises control, the Duchy of Cornwall claims ownership. And Dartmoor remains a place that provides. Reservoirs hold the water drunk by local people. China clay is extracted from its mineral reserves. Not long ago granite was quarried from its hillsides. What is modern Dartmoor and what should it be? Did druids officiate here? Can the bog be drained and crops grown? Is it the place for a prison? And what of its people's future, and the fate of its ponies, cows and sheep? For three hundred years such questions have been asked of the moor. Quartz and Feldspar does not so much provide answers as unearth those who did and the arguments they provoked.
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Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780099552550
eBay Product ID (ePID)
223037440
Product Key Features
Book Title
Quartz and Feldspar: Dartmoor-A British Landscape in Modern Times
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Local History, Geography & Geosciences, Natural History
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
404g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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