This is a book for ramblers, country motorists, and all those who are interested in the science of scenery. It covers all the common features of the landscape, natural and artificial, and describes many of the pebbles, rocks, minerals, fossils and flint implements that may be picked up as curiosities. The reader is shown how to look at a view and how to recognise and interpret something of its origins. The basic forms of scenery are presented in a series of 'profiles' from which the reader may recognise particular examples when he comes across them.
He is shown how he may feel sure of his in-terpretation, and when to be on his guard against the deceptions of accidents. He is frankly told what sort of problems should be left to the experts, and shown what a wealth of material yet remains for his own entertain-ment.
The Index contains an unrivalled number of folk-names still in use for landscape features, and should prove a valuable source of reference for those interested in country termi-nology.
.. guides the walker in the English countryside through a discussion of the changes produced by weathering, pressures and climatic changes on the rocks to the rocks themselves and their composition, minerals and jewels? The Times Literary Supplement
.. written with a remarkable limpidity of style...' H.J. Massingham in Time and Tide ..many books have been published on the origins and causes of the present scenery of Britain, but the uninstructed will not find many as useful as this. Stephen Bone in the Spectator
Title: The Living Landscape
Author: Walter Shepherd
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London
Publication Date: 1963 (Revised edition)
Format: Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket
Images: Illustrated in b/w
Pages: 208 pp.
Condition: very good. With the ownership inscription of “Allan Hart, Richmond, 1965”
Provenance: The library of British landscape designer, Allan Hart
Stock Number: RB05240 AH
This is a book for ramblers, country motorists, and all those who are interested in the science of scenery. It covers all the common features of the landscape, natural and artificial, and describes many of the pebbles, rocks, minerals, fossils and flint implements that may be picked up as curiosities. The reader is shown how to look at a view and how to recognise and interpret something of its origins. The basic forms of scenery are presented in a series of 'profiles' from which the reader may recognise particular examples when he comes across them.
He is shown how he may feel sure of his in-terpretation, and when to be on his guard against the deceptions of accidents. He is frankly told what sort of problems should be left to the experts, and shown what a wealth of material yet remains for his own entertain-ment.
The Index contains an unrivalled number of folk-names still in use for landscape features, and should prove a valuable source of reference for those interested in country termi-nology.
.. guides the walker in the English countryside through a discussion of the changes produced by weathering, pressures and climatic changes on the rocks to the rocks themselves and their composition, minerals and jewels? The Times Literary Supplement
.. written with a remarkable limpidity of style...' H.J. Massingham in Time and Tide ..many books have been published on the origins and causes of the present scenery of Britain, but the uninstructed will not find many as useful as this. Stephen Bone in the Spectator
Title: The Living Landscape
Author: Walter Shepherd
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London
Publication Date: 1963 (Revised edition)
Format: Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket
Images: Illustrated in b/w
Pages: 208 pp.
Condition: very good. With the ownership inscription of “Allan Hart, Richmond, 1965”
Provenance: The library of British landscape designer, Allan Hart
Stock Number: RB05240 AH
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