This is the first book to help the visitor understand Crete's remarkable landscape, which is just as spectacular as the island's rich archaeological heritage. Crete is a wonderful and dramatic island, a miniature continent with precipitous mountains, a hundred gorges, unique plants, extinct animals and lost civilisations, as well as the characteristic agricultural landscape of olive groves, vines and goats, Jennifer Moody and Oliver Rackham explain how the island's peculiar and extraordinary features, moulded and modified ...
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This is the first book to help the visitor understand Crete's remarkable landscape, which is just as spectacular as the island's rich archaeological heritage. Crete is a wonderful and dramatic island, a miniature continent with precipitous mountains, a hundred gorges, unique plants, extinct animals and lost civilisations, as well as the characteristic agricultural landscape of olive groves, vines and goats, Jennifer Moody and Oliver Rackham explain how the island's peculiar and extraordinary features, moulded and modified by centuries of human activity, have come together to create the landscape we see today. They also explain the formation and ecology of Crete's beautiful mountains and coastline, and the contemporary threats to the island's fragile natural beauty.
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Very Good. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Signed by Jennifer Moody on title page in black ink, on opposite page a note from Moody to an unnamed person "a generous kindred spirit" (the book is from the library of the late Jamie Sams, Native American author), tight clean unmarked, no creases in spine, no slant, hint of toning maybe around edges, light soiling on edges of text block, oblong format, paperback edition.
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Despite the title?s insistence on the Cretan landscape, this book is nothing more or less than a complete natural history of Crete, with the human inhabitants seen as just one aspect of the rich history.
Rackham with his characteristic witty and learned prose, accompanied by excellent text figures and photographs, takes the reader on a guided tour of this unique corner of Europe. After a couple of introductory chapters, he begins with geology and moves through climate and weather to the fauna. We hear that prehistoric Crete boasted dwarf elephants, as well as the ancestors of the the modern wild animals. After this the book moves to Rackham?s two specialities, the flora and vegetation, and the human settlement and cultivation patterns and how these have shaped the landscape, and been shaped by it. Rackham describes a Crete that demonstrates ancient patterns of settlement, incredible ancient trees and relictual vegetation, and features of the landscape and settlement that are more recent. The book covers such diverse topics as the off-shore islands, the huge earthquakes that have affected Crete in historical times, the effect of pirates in pushing settlement away from the coast, place names, ancient Cretan churches, shepherding practice and so on. His erudition is remarkable and the effect is to describe a Crete that is the rich total of natural and human history.
This is book, like Rackham?s Natural History of Mediterranean Europe, that should be read by anyone who is interested in the Mediterranean, Greek history, southern European natural history and the being of humans in nature through time.
