Lost to the Sea : Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities: Norfolk and Suffolk
by
Stephen Wade
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
147389347X
ISBN-13
9781473893474
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Imprint
Pen & Sword History
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 4th, 2017
Print length
145 Pages
Weight
288 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 23.30 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Deltas, estuaries, coastal regionsHuman geographyLocal history
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Tells the stories of the communities lost off the coast of Norfolk and Suffolk over the centuries, from the medieval towns such as Dunwich through to the modern places assailed by coastal erosion
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.
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