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Mallorca - The Making of the Landscape (Hardcover, New)
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Mallorca - The Making of the Landscape (Hardcover, New)
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Mallorca - the island of Robert Graves, Joan Miro, and Archduke
Ludwig Salvador - has become the most popular holiday destination
in the Mediterranean, with nearly 10 million visitors a year. Few,
however, are aware of the 5,000 year history of Mallorca and its
resulting landscape featuring late Bronze Age navetes and talayots,
Roman cities, and a major medieval trading port with one of
Europe's largest cathedrals. Mallorca's landscape has been formed
with a pattern of country houses and enclosed fields, and the
relics of major 19th-century industries, including textiles and
shoe-making workshops. 120 years of tourism, latterly on a massive
scale, endangers much of what has gone before. This pioneering
work, based on more than 10 years of local research, describes and
analyzes all these elements that together form the contemporary
landscape. Written in an accessible style and well-illustrated with
maps and photographs, this book will appeal to student and
concerned reader alike and should be read by all who are
inquisitive about what they see around them when they visit the
island. *** ..".a must for anyone curious about this lesser sung
story of history, making 'Mallorca' a fine and quite recommended
read, not to be missed." - The Midwest Book Review, Library
Bookwatch, April 2013, The World History Shelf *** "Buswell's
latest book has no peer in English....he draws on various
epistemological perspectives to portray the landscape as a cultural
artifact that is unique due to changing human settlement and
exploitation, but also is a palimpsest bearing telltale signs of
sequent occupancy never completely erased." - The AAG Review of
Books, Fall 2013
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