Product Description: In response to the 2012 discovery of Ash Disease, Oliver Rackham has written this first history and ecology of the ash tree, exploring its place in human culture, explaining Ash Disease, and arguing that globalization is now the single greatest threat to the world's trees and forests...read more

Product Description: For over four thousand years the Mediterranean was the centre of Western civilization. Geographically, it is a whole world in miniature, an inland sea whose shores encompass every type of terrain and climate. Historically, it has been the meeting-place of the cultures of Europe, Asia and Africa, the battleground of races and nations and the focus of three great religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam...read more

Product Description: Coppicing is an ancient method of enhancing woodland biodiversity, and coppice woodlands are to be found all over Britain and parts of Europe. The key to successful coppicing is to nurture the new coppice shoots. In return, a coppice will provide an endless supply of wood for a wide range of articles...read more

Product Description: Exploring the significance and history of woodlands on the British landscape, this book looks at such diverse evidence as the woods used in buildings and ships, and how woodland has been portrayed in pictures and photographs, reconstructing British woodland through the ages...read more

Product Description: Volume 3 presents the supplementary materials that support the settlement history of the Vrokastro region, derived from intensive and systematic survey. The book presents brief summaries of regional pottery of the Bronze Age, Roman, and medieval to modern periods (with tables)...read more

Product Description: Richard B. Seager excavated the Minoan town and cemetery at Pseira in 1906-1907, but the work was not fully published. The Temple University excavations (1985-1994) under the direction of Philip P. Betancourt and Costis Davaras conducted an intensive surface survey of the island...read more

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Product Description: First published in this form in 1994, this is a new paperback edition of Oliver Rackham's beautifully presented guide to the British landscape. Rackham enthusiastically illustrates the effects of nature and humans on the countryside since the Ice Age and conveys the individual characters of plants and animals, each of which plays a crucial role in shaping the environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This lecture was delivered at New College, Oxford on 10th May 1999. It focuses on the presence and meaning of trees within the Greek landscape, raising questions as to how much of the land was forested, and how the ancients viewed and used trees, such as for fuel, in building domestic structures, temples, ships and boats...read more

Product Description: Fields, highways, hedgerows, fens, marshes, rivers, heaths, coasts, woods, and wood pastures: this tribute to the endlessly changing character of Britain's countryside illustrates how it developed over the centuries. Going right up to the present day, and including both natural and man-made features, it demonstrates the sometimes subtle, sometimes radical ways in which people, flora, fauna, climate, soils, and other physical conditions have played a role in shaping the landscape...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A study of the history of British woodlands and a field guide for those who want a fuller understanding of trees and their place in the landscape.

Product Description: An examination of Hatfield Forest which is of considerable interest and importance, in that it contains all the elements of a medieval Forest, making it unique in England and possibly the world. The author explores how the Forest reflects many aspects of English history and associated wildlife, examining not only its natural history and associated wildlife, but also social implications - from the prehistoric settlement to modern conservationist and environmental issues...read more

Product Description: From its earliest origins to the present day, Oliver Rackham describes the endlessly changing character of Britain's countryside.