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Quartz and Feldspar - Dartmoor - A British Landscape in Modern Times (Paperback)
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Quartz and Feldspar - Dartmoor - A British Landscape in Modern Times (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 170
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Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the
stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite bosses
punctuating Britain's southwest peninsula. A miserable place of
rain and bog or a sunny upland of exquisite natural beauty, here
the elements are raw, the sky huge and nature seems ascendant. But
it is no less a place made by human beings. Stone circles, crosses,
dwellings and boundaries speak of the ancient, medieval and modern
people that extracted a living from the moorscape and created what
it is today. Where convicts are incarcerated, backpackers roam
freely; where commoners graze livestock, the army is trained; where
the National Park Authority exercises control, the Duchy of
Cornwall claims ownership. And Dartmoor remains a place that
provides. Reservoirs hold the water drunk by local people. China
clay is extracted from its mineral reserves. Not long ago granite
was quarried from its hillsides. What is modern Dartmoor and what
should it be? Did druids officiate here? Can the bog be drained and
crops grown? Is it the place for a prison? And what of its people's
future, and the fate of its ponies, cows and sheep? For three
hundred years such questions have been asked of the moor. Quartz
and Feldspar does not so much provide answers as unearth those who
did and the arguments they provoked.
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