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Author: Neil R. Storey Publisher: ISBN: 9780750942256 Category : Coasts Languages : en Pages : 128
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In this latest volume by Neil R. Storey we encounter some of the personalities, folklore, events, disasters, heroes and villains that have become interwoven into the rich tapestry of Norfolk's coastal past.
Author: Neil R. Storey Publisher: ISBN: 9780750942256 Category : Coasts Languages : en Pages : 128
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In this latest volume by Neil R. Storey we encounter some of the personalities, folklore, events, disasters, heroes and villains that have become interwoven into the rich tapestry of Norfolk's coastal past.
Author: Stephen Wade Publisher: Casemate Publishers ISBN: 1473893496 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 191
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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.
Author: Anthony Cook Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1785891839 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 72
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The North Norfolk Coast is one of the UK’s most beautiful natural coastlines. In this book, Anthony Cook provides an introduction to the origin and physical development of the North Norfolk Coast between Hunstanton and Weybourne – a wonderfully diverse coastline of marshes, dunes and expansive beaches backed by gently rising chalk hills. This is a relatively young coast, which dates back just a few thousand years to a period when sea levels rose after the last ice age and thus has developed entirely within the most recent geological era, the Holocene; it is also known as the Holocene Coast. Tides, currents and winds have moved, mounded and moulded mud, sand and pebbles to create the marshes, dunes and sand and shingle beaches that form the basis of the coast, but what we see now has been considerably modified by human intervention over the past 400 years or so. The many embankments that carry thousands of walkers and holiday makers every year between the inner and outer shoreline were not built for that purpose, but to isolate extensive areas of saltmarsh from the sea for conversion to agricultural land. In many respects the past and present management of the coast has enhanced both wildlife and landscape diversity, not only by creating embankments but also wooded dunes, freshwater marshes and saline pools, all of which provide habitats for many rare and local species of plants and animals. Beautifully illustrated throughout, The North Norfolk Coast describes the fascinating blend of natural processes and human management that has shaped the coast and will appeal to those with a general interest in the Norfolk area.
Author: Jules Pretty Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801455316 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 272
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Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost—not yet, perhaps, but soon—to rising tides and industrial sprawl. This Luminous Coast takes the reader with him on his journey over land and water; over sea walls of dried grass, beside stretched fields of golden crops, alongside white sails gliding across the intricate lacework of invisible creeks and estuaries, under vast skies that are home to curlews and redshanks and the outpourings of skylarks. East Anglia’s coastline is as much a human landscape as it is a natural one, and Pretty is equally perceptive about the region’s cultural heritage and its "industrial wild": fishing villages and the modern seaside resorts, family farms and oil refineries, pleasure piers and concrete seawalls, cozy pubs and military installations. Through words and photographs, Pretty interweaves stories of the land and sea with people past and present. He is a passionate and sensitive guide to a region in transition, under stress, and perhaps even doomed, as finely attuned to its history as he is to its unique sensory world.
Author: J M Dalgliesh Publisher: ISBN: 9781800807754 Category : Languages : en Pages : 254
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When a body is found on a lonely cliff top path, the angelic face of a murdered teenager lies facing the rising sun. Strangled by the hands of an unknown killer, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his fledgling team to find out how she came to be there.
Author: Michael Rouse Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445628805 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 193
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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Hunstanton & Wells-next-the-Sea have changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Patrick E. Craig Publisher: ISBN: 9780996533447 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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A family trip turns into a deadly adventure when Punkin and Boo stumble onto the operations of a ruthless gang of marijuana smugglers while on vacation on the California coat. When the gang kidnaps the girls' families to keep them from discovering the gang's secret pot gardens, the girls escape into the untamed Sinkyone Wilderness on the wild Lost Coast of northern California. Pursued by a desperate gangster known only as "El Fuente", and some very evil fallen angels, the girls find unlooked-for help from some mysterious treasure hunters and their old friend Jack Wilson.
Author: Michael Rouse Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445653362 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 193
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This fascinating and fully revised selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Hunstanton and Wells-Next-the-Sea have changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Michael Rouse Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445657066 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 96
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A guided tour of the historic town of Cromer and Sheringham, showing how the areas you know and love have transformed over the centuries.
Author: Alex Wright Publisher: Augsburg Books ISBN: 1506467377 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 160
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Christianity has often seemed impatient with the idea of doubt. Certainty, not irresolution, has been seen as the test of faith and key to unlocking participation in the supposed life to come. But when his marriage collapsed, Alex Wright knew that all his own certainties had been reduced to rubble. The future he had planned on the Norfolk coast disappeared as fast as a sea-fret burning up in the noonday sun. In this moving book, written out of his own disturbing experience of deep-rooted uncertainty about the future, the author suggests that it is actually doubt, not conviction, that expresses the most important insights about religion and the spiritual life and, indeed, about life itself.
Author: Neil R. Storey
Author: Neil R. Storey
Author: Stephen Wade
Author: Anthony Cook
Author: Jules Pretty
Author: J M Dalgliesh
Author: Michael Rouse
Author: Patrick E. Craig
Author: Michael Rouse
Author: Michael Rouse
Author: Alex Wright