The Making of the British Landscape How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Former president of the Council for British Archaeology, Dr Francis Pryor has spent thirty years studying the prehistory of the Fens. He has excavated sites as diverse as Bronze Age farms, field systems and entire Iron Age villages. He appears frequently on TV's Time Team and is the author of Seahenge, as well as Britain BC and Britain AD, both of which he adapted and presented as Channel 4 series.Pryor is that rare combination of a first-rate working archaeologist and a good writer, with the priceless ability of being able to explain complex ideas clearly. This is popular archaeology at its best.
Times Higher Educational Supplement
Under his gaze, the land starts to fill with tribes and clans wandering this way and that, leaving traces that can still be seen today... Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it
- Kathryn Hughes, Guardian
<p>I guarantee you'll enjoy it</p>
British Archaeology
Compelling, deeply rewarding and hugely impressive ... pull on your boots and coat, go out into the open
- Philip Marsden, Sunday Times
A rollercoaster across a hundred centuries ... Pryor clearly loves this country in the marrow of his bones
- Adam Nicholson, Scotsman