The Lie Of The Land - An Under The Field Guide To The British Isles

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Takes the reader on an explosive journey across millenia. Continents glide thousands of miles like contestants in Strictly Come Dancing, Scotland swelters on the Equator & Snowdonia boasts a volcanic ring of fire with mountains taller than Everest. (Daily Express). Like most of us, Ian Vince used to think of the British countryside as average, unexciting
- as dramatic as a nice cup of tea. Then, over the course of a single car journey, the features of our green & pleasant land reawakened a fascination with geology that he had long forgotten, & he began to delve beneath the surface (metaphorically, that is). From the ancient rocks of north-west Scotland to St Michael's Mount off the coast of Cornwall, The Lie of the Land takes us on a journey through a fantastically exotic Britain of red desert sands, shattering continental collisions & tides of volcanic lava. Ian Vince shows us how Britain came to look the way it does; & with warmth & wit transports us back through billions of years to a land that time forgot. Anyone who has ever picked up a pebble at the seaside or a rock on a moorland path will find invaluable Ian Vince's geological guide...you will understand the area round your British holiday cottage far more deeply than before. (Giles Foden (author of The Last King of Scotl&, &, Conde Nast Traveller).