414pp, b&w photos, maps, figs. Written from combined perspectives of natural science, archaeology, social history and historical geography.”The North Pennines, Dartmoor and South Wales are the subject of detailed accounts that reveal the common characteristics of the moorlands as well as their marked contrasts. Beyond the recent crises of overgrazing and the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak, Ian Simmons lays out some possible futures for the moors”. Paperback.
0748617310