Land of Singing Waters
Rivers and Great Floods of Northumbria
Published in November 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-1-871739-28-2 (ISBN)
Description
A book about the rivers of Northumbria throughout history and how their behaviour and geography have created the landscape and influenced the towns and villages of the region. Above all, it is about the people who have had to live with the rivers in all their changing moods.
A book about the rivers of Northumbria throughout history and how their behaviour and geography have created the landscape and influenced the towns and villages of the region. Above all, it is about the people who have had to live with the rivers in all their changing moods.
A book about the rivers of Northumbria throughout history and how their behaviour and geography have created the landscape and influenced the towns and villages of the region. Above all, it is about the people who have had to live with the rivers in all their changing moods.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Stocksfields, Northumberland
United Kingdom
Illustrations
75 maps, photographs, b&w and colour illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-871739-28-2 (9781871739282)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
The River Tees; the River Skerne; the River Leven; the River Wear; the River Tyne; Rivers Wansbeck and Blyth; Cheviot Streams - Till, Coquet and Aln; flash flood!; a history of failure.