{"product_id":"9780099552550","title":"Quartz and feldspar: Dartmoor - a British landscape in modern times","description":"\u003cp\u003eGranite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite bosses punctuating Britainâe(tm)s southwest peninsula. A miserable place of rain and bog or a sunny upland of exquisite natural beauty, here the elements are raw, the sky huge and nature seems ascendant.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut it is no less a place made by human beings. Stone circles, crosses, dwellings and boundaries speak of the ancient, medieval and modern people that extracted a living from the moorscape and created what it is today. Where convicts are incarcerated, backpackers roam freely; where commoners graze livestock, the army is trained; where the National Park Authority exercises control, the Duchy of Cornwall claims ownership. And Dartmoor remains a place that provides. Reservoirs hold the water drunk by local people. China clay is extracted from its mineral reserves. Not long ago granite was quarried from its hillsides.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is modern Dartmoor and what should it be? Did druids officiate here? Can the bog be drained and crops grown? Is it the place for a prison? And what of its peopleâe(tm)s future, and the fate of its ponies, cows and sheep? For three hundred years such questions have been asked of the moor. \u003ci\u003eQuartz and Feldspar\u003c\/i\u003e does not so much provide answers as unearth those who did and the arguments they provoked.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55401266217303,"sku":"9780099552550","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/11614333482223.jpg?v=1791871061","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/9780099552550","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}