STONES OF BRITAIN (HB)

Rocks make places. The shattered granite landscape of Dartmoor is different from the soft red sandstone hills of east Devon; the rolling chalk downs of Kent are distinct from the gritty moors of Yorkshire. This book is about the intimate connection between geology and landscape, between the stones beneath the surface and the history that has played out above it. It explains the nature of place on the island of Britain, revealing the landscape as the joint product of geology and human beings: a history rooted in stone.