The Orchards of Eastern England

The Orchards of Eastern England
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Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 1912260425
ISBN-13 : 9781912260423
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Book Synopsis The Orchards of Eastern England by : Gerry Barnes

Download or read book The Orchards of Eastern England written by Gerry Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the history of orchards and fruit varieties is of great popular interest, there have been few academic treatments of the subject. This book presents results from a three-year project, 'Orchards East', investigating the history and ecology of orchards in the east of England. Together, the eastern counties of Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk have a tradition of fruit cultivation comparable in scale to that of the better-known west of England. Drawing on far-reaching archival research, an extensive survey of surviving orchards and biodiversity surveys, the authors tell the fascinating story of orchards in the east since the late Middle Ages. Orchards were ubiquitous features of the medieval and early modern landscape. For well over a century now, orchards have been romanticised as nostalgic elements of a timeless yet disappearing rural world. Even before that, they were embedded in myths of lost Edens, or golden ages of effortless plenty. A key aim of this book is to challenge some of these myths by grounding orchards within a wider range of historical and environmental contexts.


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