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Paths to the past : encounters with Britain's hidden landscapes by Francis Pryor is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Discover The Hidden Corners And Forgotten Crevices Of Britain's Landscapes, From Lost Rural Treasures To Unseen Urban Gems. Landscapes Reflect And Shape Our Behaviour. They Make Us Who We Are And Bear Witness To The Shifting Patterns Of Human Life Over The Generations. Bringing To Bear A Lifetime's Digging, Archaeologist Francis Pryor Delves Into Britain's Hidden Urban And Rural Landscapes, From Whitby Abbey To The Navvy Camp At Risehill In Cumbria, From Tintagel To Tottenham's Broadwater Farm. Through Fields, Woods, Moors, Roads, Tracks And Towns, He Reveals The Stories Of Our Physical Surroundings And What They Meant To The People Who Formed Them, Used Them And Lived In Them. These Landscapes, He Stresses, Are Our Common Physical Inheritance. If We Can Understand How To Make Them Yield Up Their Secrets, It Will Help Us, Their Guardians, To Maintain And Shape Them For Future Generations.

Author
Francis Pryor
Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited
Published
2018
Language
EN
ISBN
9780241299999

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