About the Book: How To Read The Landscape: A Crash Course In Interpreting The
Great Outdoors
Interest in the environment has never been greater, yet how much do each of us
understand and engage with it? Geography and geology feel like forgotten
schoolroom lessons, and most of us admire the landscape without guessing at the
many visible clues to the 4 billion years of history that formed it. How to Read
the Landscape will change the way you look at the world, by presenting a visual
vocabulary with which to understand the land beneath your feet. The book
explains the principles of geography, geology, and geomorphology,