Lost to the Sea - Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities: Norfolk and Suffolk (Paperback)

_Lost to the Sea: Norfolk & Suffolk_ relates the stories of how the human communities along the coast of these counties maintained their struggle with the sea. From very early Neolithic times, when global changes created the Continental Shelf and raised the cliffs along Britain's eastern shorelines, through Roman and medieval times, the first villages and towns were gradually established, only to be faced with the problem of the sea's incursions onto agricultural land. In the 1950s, Rowland Parker's classic study of Dunwich, a key town of Suffolk engulfed, set the scene for a long-standing interest in how the sea's challenge has been met. There have been successes and failures, and Stephen Wade tells the story of the seaside holiday towns and fishing communities that have had to struggle for survival. In this book, the reader will find stories of the people involved in this titanic effort through the centuries. The narrative moves down the coast from Hunstanton to Southwold, tracing the losses and the gains, not only in measurements of land, but in the tough human experience of that environmental history.

General

Imprint:	Pen & Sword History
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2017
Authors:	Stephen Wade
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	145
ISBN-13:	978-1-4738-9347-4
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Physical geography > Deltas, estuaries, coastal regions Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	1-4738-9347-X
Barcode:	9781473893474

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