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Oliver Rackham.
The History of the Countryside.
Published London: J. M. Dent, 1993 reprint (previously issued 1987; hardback was 1986).
ISBN 0460860917;
ISBN-13: 9780460860918.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Size: 154×233×37mm.
Page count: text xvi,445pp; plates 16pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has the usual mild scuffs on its covers, a bit of wear on the edges with the corners starting to curl; text pages yellowed with age; the spine is not creased fom reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for current edn. £14.99]
Weight without packaging: 754g.

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Explores the evolution of the English landscape and the interplay of people, fauna, flora, climate, soil and other physical conditions; covers prehistory to the twentieth century, including a generous selection of medieval material.

Contents: Regions; Historical methods & the use of evidence; Conservation; Animals & plants — extinctions & new arrivals; Woodland; Wood-pasture — commons, parks & wooded forests; Plantations; Fields; Hedges & field-walls; Trees of hedgerow & farmland; Elms; Highways; Heathland; Moorland; Grassland; Ponds, dells & pits; Marshes, fens, rivers & the sea.

Illustrations: 15 text figures & 16 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: 92

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 14
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: this copy has some references included within the index
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes

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