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# The Making Of The British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present

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Review: Making Made Magic - This book takes you on a wonderful, lyrical journey through the physical history of the islands of Britain, starting as they came out of the last Ice Age and taking us right through to the building of the Shard. Nicholas Crane is very positive in his notion that he set out to provide 'a clean story' and not a reference book. He also states that to care about a place you must first know its story. He succeeds brilliantly in giving us a clean story about 'the place' of Britain. I do not want to delve too deeply into the story he tells, but in twenty-two chapters he covers almost every aspect of that story in intriguing detail. Every one of his chapters is memorable and exciting because his background research has been so comprehensive that he is able to show us new information about places and things we thought we already knew about. Other reviewers have complained bitterly about the lack of maps, but read the book as a story and you will not need them because his excellent bibliography provides all the subsidiary information you could desire. In fact by following up the access to modern studies he provides, you could become an expert in the making of our beloved place of Britain. Any intelligent adult or older child with a sense of curiosity would be thrilled to receive this book as a Christmas present.
Review: A well researched combination of British history and geography. - I really enjoyed reading the kindle edition of this book. Combines UK geography with history and is very readable. Puts the history of the UK in context. I am of the generation when history was taught badly in school and this book deals with the history of the British landscape in a very interesting way. The book is thorough and detailed and is obviously well researched by Mr Crane. The kindle edition seems to mix up some of the paragraphs out of synch which is disappointing but don’t let this put you off.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 83,634 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 115 in Social Science Human Geography |
| Customer reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (391) |
| Dimensions  | 12.8 x 4.2 x 19.6 cm |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 0753826674 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0753826676 |
| Item weight  | 484 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 608 pages |
| Publication date  | 5 Oct. 2017 |
| Publisher  | W&N |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Making Made Magic
*by P***R on 8 December 2016*

This book takes you on a wonderful, lyrical journey through the physical history of the islands of Britain, starting as they came out of the last Ice Age and taking us right through to the building of the Shard. Nicholas Crane is very positive in his notion that he set out to provide 'a clean story' and not a reference book. He also states that to care about a place you must first know its story. He succeeds brilliantly in giving us a clean story about 'the place' of Britain. I do not want to delve too deeply into the story he tells, but in twenty-two chapters he covers almost every aspect of that story in intriguing detail. Every one of his chapters is memorable and exciting because his background research has been so comprehensive that he is able to show us new information about places and things we thought we already knew about. Other reviewers have complained bitterly about the lack of maps, but read the book as a story and you will not need them because his excellent bibliography provides all the subsidiary information you could desire. In fact by following up the access to modern studies he provides, you could become an expert in the making of our beloved place of Britain. Any intelligent adult or older child with a sense of curiosity would be thrilled to receive this book as a Christmas present.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A well researched combination of British history and geography.
*by H***9 on 10 January 2019*

I really enjoyed reading the kindle edition of this book. Combines UK geography with history and is very readable. Puts the history of the UK in context. I am of the generation when history was taught badly in school and this book deals with the history of the British landscape in a very interesting way. The book is thorough and detailed and is obviously well researched by Mr Crane. The kindle edition seems to mix up some of the paragraphs out of synch which is disappointing but don’t let this put you off.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Outstanding
*by C***F on 30 May 2021*

I'm not a big fan of his style on TV but was impressed when I heard him on an old Start the Week on Radio 4. He has a beautiful writing style that evokes the countryside cities and the landscape during these islands fortunes over maybe 5,000 years. Was fascinated that the economy and landscape developed until it reached a peak in the 12th century, and how the Black Death combined with a cooling climate (and the 100 years war, I'd have thought, though that isn't mentioned) threw things back to pre-Roman times. Then the development of proper market towns, the rise of Norwich and East Anglia with the wool trade, until coal and steel started the industrial revolution. The fact that it hasn't been continuous progress in the past and that the climate can change on its own for hundreds of years is quite a revalation.

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