Windgather Press: 31 books

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Ancient Trees in the Landscape

Norfolk's arboreal heritage

by Gerry Barnes, Tom Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011

Ancient Trees in the Landscape is the outcome of many years research into the history of trees in Norfolk, and represents the first detailed, published account of the ancient and traditionally managed trees of any English county. Yet it is far more than a regional survey. It is an exploration of how...
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Gardens of Earthly Delight

The History of Deer Parks

by John Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011

This is a highly original, profusely illustrated, and well researched account of deer parks. With humility and respect Fletcher touches on errors commonly made by archaeologists and historians, taking issue with long held theories while drawing on his lifetime working with deer to formulate plausible...
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Norfolk Landscapes

A colourful journey through the Broads, Brecks, Staithes and Churches of Norfolk

by Doug Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015

Norfolk is a very distinctive county, the most easterly in the British Isles. With the North Sea and The Wash to the east and north it is relatively close to the Netherlands, but Norwich is only a couple of hours by train from London. It has been a center of great political power, but is on no major...
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Yorkshire Landscapes

A photographic tour of England's largest and most varied county

by Doug Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016

Yorkshire is by far the largest county in England, taking up most of the land area from Sheffield in the south to Cleveland in the north. Covering such a large area between the North Sea and the Pennine watershed, the variety of landscapes is astonishing, and in this book you will get a taste of much...
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Local Places, Global Processes

histories of environmental change in Britain and beyond

by Peter Coates, David Moon, Paul Warde
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016

We live in an age of unprecedented environmental change: global, interconnected and universal. Yet though our lives are inextricably connected to global processes, and increasingly mobile, we still live in particular places. Our perceptions of change, and what kind of change might be for good or ill,...
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Extinctions and Invasions

A Social History of British Fauna

by Terry O'Connor, Naomi Jane Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010

Eight thousand years ago, when the sea cut Britain off from the rest of the Continent, the island's fauna was very different: most of the animals familiar to us today were not present, whilst others, now extinct, were abundant. Over the course of millennia humans have manipulated Britain's fauna....
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Dury and Andrews’ Map of Hertfordshire

Society and landscape in the eighteenth century

by Andrew Macnair, Anne Rowe, Tom Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015

This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London mapmakers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews. For well over two centuries, from the time of Elizabeth I to the late 18th century, the county was the basic unit for mapping in Britain and the...
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Medieval Devon and Cornwall

Shaping an Ancient Countryside

by Sam Turner
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017

The countryside of Devon and Cornwall preserves an unusually rich legacy from its medieval past. This book explores the different elements which go to make up this historic landscape - the chapels, crosses, castles and mines; the tinworks and strip fields; and above all, the intricately worked counterpane...
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Cipières

Landscape and Community in Alpes-Maritimes, France

by David Austin, Rosamond Faith, Andrew Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013

Cipières, in the Alpes-Maritimes, is a French upland landscape rich in archaeology and distinctive in its topography. Cipières: Community and Landscape in the Alpes-Maritimes is a unique exploration which brings together a wealth of documentary sources retained in the village with material evidence...
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St Kilda and the Wider World

Tales of an Iconic Island

by Andrew Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005

St Kilda, now a World Heritage Site and once home to the most remote community in Britain, has long been seen as a place of tragedy. Sepia images of intrepid seabird hunters and the abandoned village street have been used to evoke a heroic, ultimately doomed 'struggle for existence'on the edge of...
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by Susan Oosthuizen
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017

Archaeologies and histories of the fens of eastern England, continue to suggest, explicitly or by implication, that the early medieval fenland was dominated by the activities of north-west European colonists in a largely empty landscape. Using existing and new evidence and arguments, this new interdisciplinary...
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Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World

History, Myth and Archaeology

by Linda Farrar
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016

From the earliest of times people have sought to grow and nurture plants in a garden area. Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World traces the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine,...
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An Upland Biography

Landscape and Prehistory on Gardom's Edge, Derbyshire

by John Barnatt, Bill Bevan, Mark Edmonds
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017

Gardom's Edge is an area of gritstone upland situated on the Eastern Moors of the Derbyshire Peak District. Like other parts of the Eastern Moors, Gardom's Edge has long been renowned for the wealth of prehistoric field systems, cairns and other structures which can still be traced across the surface. ...
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by Naomi Sykes, Karis Baker, Ruth Carden
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014

Deer have been central to human cultures throughout time and space: whether as staples to hunter-gatherers, icons of Empire, or the focus of sport. Their social and economic importance has seen some species transported across continents, transforming landscape as they went with the establishment of...
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