WALKING THE BONES OF BRITAIN

Somerville s infectious enthusiasm and wry humour infuse his journey from the Isle of Lewis to southern England revealing our rich geological history with vibrant local and natural history Observer A meticulous exploration of the ground beneath our feet Glorious Katharine Norbury A remarkable achievement Tom Chesshyre His writing is utterly enticing Country Walking The influence Britain s geology has had on our daily lives is profound While we may be unaware of it every aspect of our history has been affected by events that happened ten thousand a million or a thousand million years ago In Walking the Bones of Britain Christopher Somerville takes a journey of a thousand miles beginning in the far north at the three billion year old rocks of the Isle of Lewis formed when the world was still molten and travelling south eastwards to the furthest corner of Essex where new land is being formed Crossing bogs scaling peaks and skirting quarry pits he unearths the stories bound up in the layers of rock beneath our feet and examines how they have influenced everything from how we farm to how we build our houses fro