Underlands - A Journey Through Britain's Lost Landscapes

Not so long ago, our roads, buildings, gravestones and monuments were built from local rock, our cities were powered by coal from Welsh mines, and our lamps were lit with paraffin from Scottish shale. We live among the remnants of those times but for the most part our mines are gone, our buildings are no longer local, and the flow of stone travels east to west.

Spurred on by the erasure of history and industry, Ted Nield journeyed across this buried landscape: from the small Welsh village where his mining ancestors were born and died, to Swansea, Aberdeen, East Lothian, Surrey and Dorset. Nield unearths the veins of coal, stone, oil, rock and clay that make up the country beneath our feet, exploring what the loss of kinship between past and present means for Britain and the rest of the world today.

About the author

TED NIELD holds a doctorate in geology and works for the Geological Society of London as Editor of the monthly magazine Geoscientist. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society and a member of the Meteoritical Society. He is the author of Supercontinent (2007) and Incoming! (2011). He lives in London.

Summary

Journeying across the British Isles and drawing on his own mining and stonemasonry background, geologist Ted Nield unearths the ways in which the rocks beneath our feet shape our lives

Product details

• Authors: Ted Nield, Nield Ted
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2015
• EAN: 9781847086723
• ISBN: 978-1-84708-672-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 202 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; NATURE / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest