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The Women Who Saved the English Countryside /

A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women In Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. But this was not always so. Over the last 150 years, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kelly, Matthew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Maps
  • Introduction: The Four
  • Octavia Hill: Gathering in the Givers
  • Beatrix Potter: A Farm of One's Own
  • Pauline Dower: 'Inconspicuous Good'
  • Sylvia Sayer: Segregating Dartmoor
  • Epilogue: Fifty Years On
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • Index