The Making Of The British Landscape

'The book I admired most was Nicholas Crane's The Making of the British Landscape as panoramic as it is revelatory'

OBSERVER Books of the Year

'The book I want most for Christmas is the satisfyingly hefty The Making of the British Landscape by the ever reliable Nicholas Crane'

OBSERVER Books of the Year

'Crane provides a masterful account of how landscapes were settled and shaped'

THE NATIONAL

'A definitive, encyclopaedic read and an evocative paean to the evolution of our scenery by the vastly knowledgeable BBC presenter, Nick Crane. A revealing glimpse of the Britain that once was and how we made it the place it is today'

BBC COUNTRYFILE

'Nicholas Crane's sweeping The Making of the British Landscape shows how fragile are the views we love best, and how critical it is to guard them'

EVENING STANDARD

'This is his greatest work for those curious to understand the geographical layers that have shaped Great Britain. From diminishing ice to the peak of our London urban Shard, Crane has captured the chronology of change of our landscapes, full of facts, imagination and archaeology'

GEOGRAPHICAL

This planet is 4.5 billion years old, but it's sobering to realise how recently the world as we know it came into being. Only 10,000 years ago, these islands were joined to Europe and much of the North Sea was covered by the Dogger Hills. This epic book charts these incredible changes.

MAIL ON SUNDAY

'This is storytelling at its best. Crane's subject is the British landscape - the relationship between people and place, and how climate and population shaped our world ... written with brio (and) insight'

THE TIMES

'A book I absolutely loved'

'The Making of the British Landscape by Nicholas Crane does exactly what it says on the tin, providing a panoramic account of the past 12,000 years that is simultaneously scholarly, lyrical and moving'

NEW STATESMAN

'The book I'd love for Christmas is Nicholas Crane's The Making of the British Landscape'

OBSERVER Books of the Year

'This is the fascinating story of how 12,000 years of human occupation have shaped the landscape of Britain, Europe's largest island, through hunter-gathering, agriculture and industry, up to the present day'

MAIL ON SUNDAY Christmas Books

'A richly textured, thoughtful examination'

SUNDAY TIMES Christmas Books

'Superb chronicle of the physical characteristics of Europe's largest island'

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

I'm just starting to read Nicholas Crane's epic tome The Making of the British Landscape and I'm enthralled

OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY

It is clear throughout this story that Crane cares for the British landscape's future as well as its past, and wants us to care too.

BBC HISTORY

Nicholas Crane is an engaging writer who handles his vast canvas with confidence and clarity...It's no suprise that Mr Crane won the Royal Geographical Society's award for popularising geography.

COUNTRY LIFE

It is an astonishingly imaginative effort...full of unforgettable things...What makes his book compelling is its wholeness. It is the account of something as knitted as a marriage.

THE OLDIE

Nicholas Crane's sweeping history encourages such a long view...He displays an impressive mastery of the details of countless archaelogical excavations that join up the fragments from which Britain's earliest story must be deduced.

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Crane cleverly integrates environmental evidence and climate change throughout.

BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY

Well structure...This is prose of the highest order

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