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The Lie of the Land – An Under the Field Guide to the British Isles

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 and pleasant land reawakened a fascination with geology that he had long forgotten, and he began to delve beneath the surface (metaphorically, that is). From the rocks of north-west Scotland which are amongst the oldest on the planet to St Michael`s Mount off the coast of Cornwall, which was still being shaped in human memory, “The Lie of the Land” takes us on a journey through a fantastically exotic Britain of red desert sands, shattering continental collisions and tides of volcanic lava. Ian Vince shows us how Britain came to look the way it does; and with warmth and wit transports us back through billions of years to a land that time forgot.

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