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The Great Flood - Travels Through a Sodden Landscape (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 200
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The Great Flood - Travels Through a Sodden Landscape (Paperback)
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Loot Price R420
Discovery Miles 4 200
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A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Flooding has always threatened the
rainy, wind-swept islands of the United Kingdom, but it is becoming
more frequent and more severe. Combining travel writing and
reportage with readings of history, literature and myth, Edward
Platt explores the way floods have shaped the physical landscape of
Britain and left their mark on its inhabitants. During the course
of two years, which coincided with the record-breaking floods of
the winter of 2013-14, Platt travelled around the country, visiting
places that had flooded and meeting the people affected. He visited
flooded villages and towns and expanses of marsh and Fen threatened
by the winter storms, and travelled along the edge of the drowned
plain that used to connect Britain to continental Europe. He met
people struggling to stop their houses falling into the sea and
others whose homes had been engulfed. He investigated disasters
natural and man-made, and heard about the conflicting attitudes
towards those charged with preventing them. The Great Flood
dramatizes the experience of being flooded and considers what will
happen as the planet warms and the waters rise, illuminating the
reality behind the statistics and headlines that we all too often
ignore.
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