An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650 - 1950

by Tom Williamson

Book Overview

While few detailed surveys of fauna or flora exist in England from the period before the nineteenth century, it is possible to combine the evidence of historical sources (ranging from game books, diaries, churchwardens' accounts and even folk songs) and our wider knowledge of past land use and landscape, with contemporary analyses made by modern natural scientists, in order to model the situation at various times and places in the more remote past...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441108637
• ISBN13: 9781441108630
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"