The Making of the Cretan Landscape
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1997
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-3646-0 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-3646-0 (ISBN)
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This work explains how Crete's peculiar and extraordinary features, moulded and modified by centuries of human activity, have come together to create today's landscape. It covers the formation and ecology of Crete's mountains and coastline, and examines threats to the island's natural beauty.
This text aims to help the visitor to Crete understand its landscape. The authors explain how the island's peculiar and extraordinary features, moulded and modified by centuries of human activity, have come together to create today's landscape. They explain the formation and ecology of Crete's mountains and coastline, and examine contemporary threats to the island's natural beauty. The book draws on a range of evidence - field observations, archaeology, ancient and medieval documents, place-names, tree-rings and standing buildings. It should be of interest to general readers and travellers with an interest in Crete's landscape, natural history and history; and to students and scholars of Mediterranean landscape history, geography, historical ecology and archaeology.
This text aims to help the visitor to Crete understand its landscape. The authors explain how the island's peculiar and extraordinary features, moulded and modified by centuries of human activity, have come together to create today's landscape. They explain the formation and ecology of Crete's mountains and coastline, and examine contemporary threats to the island's natural beauty. The book draws on a range of evidence - field observations, archaeology, ancient and medieval documents, place-names, tree-rings and standing buildings. It should be of interest to general readers and travellers with an interest in Crete's landscape, natural history and history; and to students and scholars of Mediterranean landscape history, geography, historical ecology and archaeology.
Chronology; history, pseudo-history and the use of evidence; the environment - making the mountains, weather and water; the inhabitants - wild animals, wild trees and plants, domestic animals and plants, people and settlements; the landscape - place-names, vegetation, vegetation history, terraces, fields and enclosures, boots, mules and roads, shepherding, buildings, sacred landscapes; unusual places - the high mountains, coasts and the sea, islets; the future - conservation and the future.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.1.1997 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 8 full-colour illustrations, 82 b&w illustrations, chronology |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Reiseführer ► Europa ► Griechenland | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7190-3646-1 / 0719036461 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7190-3646-0 / 9780719036460 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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