An engaging tour of vanished worlds in Britain and Ireland: besides Doggerland and Dunwich, there’s a surreal Victorian amusement park on the Isle of Wight, Bronze Age settlements in the Scillies, fata morganas of lost towns, drowned forests in Wales, consuming dunes in Scotland… Observant and articulate, LW is intrigued by the long echoes of historical change in local legend and by human responses to rising sea levels. The archaeological insights are mesmerising too.
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