LOST LANDS OF EDEN: PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPE IN EARLY EAST CUMBRIA, FROM ABOUT 10,000BC TO 700AD
Published by East Cumbria Countryside Project
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- HISTORY
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LOST LANDS OF EDEN: PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPE IN EARLY EAST CUMBRIA, FROM ABOUT 10,000BC TO 700AD
Stock no. 1825902
Softcover.
Slightly better than very good condition.
East Cumbria as shaped by 6,000 years of human history. The River Eden runs right through East Cumbria and, as a result, much of the area has been known, simply, as Eden. Each chapter of the book describes a scene of life in Eden. Oblong format. Cardwraps. Two tone illustrations throughout. 36 numbered pages. Light browning to covers. Previous owner's rainbow coloured address label to title page. Else contents clean.
Front cover
Contents
- Chapter 1: From Ice and Oak
- Chapter 2: Eden's First Farmers
- Chapter 3: Farming the Garden of Eden
- Chapter 5: The First Rulers
- Chapter 6: Catastrophe! The Loss of Eden
- Chapter 7: Creating a New Eden
- Chapter 8: Empire and Eden
- Chapter 9: Eden at the Edge of the World
- Chapter 10: Eden and Empire
- chapter 11: The Kings of Eden
- Roman Drives
- Bibliography