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Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary

English

By (author): Christopher Somerville

Somervilles infectious enthusiasm and wry humour infuse his journey from the Isle of Lewis to southern England, revealing our rich geological history with vibrant local and natural history Observer

A meticulous exploration of the ground beneath our feet. Glorious Katherine Norbury

A remarkable achievement Tom Chesshyre


His writing is utterly enticing Country Walking
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The influence Britains geology has had on our daily lives is profound. While we may be unaware of it, every aspect of our history has been affected by events that happened ten thousand, a million, or a thousand million years ago.

In Walking the Bones of Britain, Christopher Somerville takes a journey of a thousand miles, beginning in the far north, at the three-billion-year-old rocks of the Isle of Lewis, formed when the world was still molten, and travelling south-eastwards to the furthest corner of Essex, where new land is being formed. Crossing bogs, scaling peaks and skirting quarry pits, he unearths the stories bound up in the layers of rock beneath our feet, and examines how they have influenced everything from how we farm to how we build our houses, from the Industrial Revolution to the current climate crisis.

Told with characteristic humour and insight, this gripping exploration of the British landscape and its remarkable history cannot fail to change the way you see the world beyond your door.

Somerville is a walkers writer Nicholas Crane

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 13 Jun 2024

Product Details
  • Weight: 500g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Jun 2024
  • Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781804991060

About Christopher Somerville

Christopher Somerville is the walking correspondent of The Times. He is one of Britains most respected and prolific travel writers with forty-two books hundreds of newspaper articles and many TV and radio appearances to his name.He lives in Bristol.

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