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By Anna Pavord



Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places By Anna Pavord

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Most Helpful 0 of 0 review helpful An enlightening book investigating why some landscapes are so important to us By A music lover This book ranges widely explaining how the appreciation of landscape developed and illustrating this story by making interesting dips into art literature social politics and the history of farming practice There is a forgivable bias towards appreciation of the Welsh landscape given that Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort awe and mesmerise In spirit as Romantic as rational Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have throughout the ages responded to the land In the eighteenth century artists first started to paint English scenery and the Lakes as well as Snowdon began to attract a new kind of visitor the landscape tourist Early travel guides sought to cap A personal meditation on the nature of our British countryside that expands progressively to encompass a far broader view Rachel Campbell Johnston The Times A winning study of English landscape Lucy Scholes BBC Countryfile

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