The Northern Pennines: their past, their present and their future
W.H. Auden's poem "The Watershed" guides the content of this book published by STEMPLE SIKE PRESS
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2023
A look at a landscape that continues to be affected by a long-dead industry.
ISBN 978-1-3999-5276-7
Industrial and Social History
Geography and Geology
Environmental Legacy
The Future
Each chapter introduced by a different Auden poem
Review of Lead Mining Land
"This is a book that has been written with love; for the landscape, the industry, the miner's life and the poetry that weaves a net to capture all. Once you have read to the end, you will be inspired to visit, or re-visit, the valleys and towns of Lead Mining Land."
Extract from the Review by author and geologist Geoff Downer. The full Review appears in Newsletters of the SE branch of the Open University Geology Association and the Kent branch of the Geologists' Association.