Tir

The Story of the Welsh Landscape

Carwyn Graves (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2024
Calon (Verlag)
978-1-915279-66-8 (ISBN)

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In Tir – the Welsh word for ‘land’ – writer and ecologist Carwyn Graves takes us on a tour of seven key elements of the Welsh landscape, such as the ffridd, or mountain pasture, and the rhos, or wild moorland. By diving deep into the history and ecology of each of these landscapes, we discover that Wales, in all its beautiful variety, is at base just as much a human cultural creation as a natural phenomenon: its raw materials evolved alongside the humans that have lived here since the ice receded.

In our modern era of climate concerns and polarised debates on land use, diet and more, it matters that we understand the world we are in and the roads we travelled to get here. By exploring each of these key landscapes and meeting the people who live, work and farm in them, Tir offers hope for a better future; one with stunningly beautiful, richly biodiverse landscapes that are ten times richer in wildlife than they currently are, and still full of humans working the land.

1. Introduction: old mountainous Wales, the bards’ paradise
2. Coed
3. Cloddiau
4. Cae
5. Ffridd
6. Mynydd
7. Rhos
8. Perllan
9. Epilogue: adnewyddu/renewal

Erscheinungsdatum	12.03.2024
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-915279-66-6 / 1915279666
ISBN-13	978-1-915279-66-8 / 9781915279668
Zustand	Neuware