Lead Mining Land the Northern Pennines winter thumbnails

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Reflecting on how we can live sustainably and reconnect with nature

anger to self-protection

with a concentration that implies a good deal of disturbance with proportionately little fuss

Chief Vitalstatistix wants a stew seasoned with Caesar's laurel wreath

Lead Mining Land the Northern Pennines winter thumbnailsAn informal, informative introduction to lead mining in the Northern Pennines. Uniquely, the theme and structure are both guided by the "Pennine Poems" of the late W. H. Auden. Chapters on geology, technology, the environmental legacy of mining, social history, industrial history and heritage tourism are all introduced by lines from poetry as the authors respond to Auden's claim (made in the poem, The Watershed) that the land he saw before him refused