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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unrean/unused condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The Peak District is England’s most popular hill-walking area. Its varied scenery has attracted praise from writers and naturalists as well as those who seek out the pleasures of natural beauty and outdoor exercise. For more than three centuries its mix of intriguing dale and invigorating hills easy walking on grassy fields and tough going on moorlands of bog and its unusual limestone scenery with dry valleys deep gorges and underground drainage systems have captured the imagination and aroused the desire to get out in the fresh air. Many of those who walk through this marvellous landscape teasingly placed between major conurbations wonder why it looks like it does. What created the immense variety of landscape in the Peak District? What is the role of the underlying geology and what is the contribution of human beings? Why is the White Peak so grassy scattered with dry valleys (LL)