The great flood : travels through a sodden landscape / Edward Platt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Platt, Edward, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Floods.

Physical Description:

303 pages : map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Picador, 2019.

Summary:

Flooding has always threatened the rainy, wind-swept islands of the United Kingdom, but it is becoming more frequent and more severe. During the course of two years, which coincided with the record-breaking floods of the winter of 2013-14, Edward Platt travelled around the country, visiting places that had flooded and meeting the people affected. He visited flooded villages and towns and expanses of marsh and Fen threatened by the winter storms, and travelled along the edge of the drowned plain that used to connect Britain to continental Europe. He met people struggling to stop their houses falling into the sea and others whose homes had been engulfed. He investigated disasters natural and man-made, and heard about the conflicting attitudes towards those charged with preventing them. Combining travel writing and reportage with readings of history, literature and myth, Platt explores the way floods have shaped the physical landscape of Britain and left their mark on its inhabitants. The Great Flood dramatizes the experience of being flooded and considers what will happen as the planet warms and the waters rise, illuminating the reality behind the statistics and headlines that we all too often ignore.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE THE DEEP

1. The Anchorage Thorney, Somerset, January 2014

2. A Stone Ark Gilgamesh In Gloucestershire: Tewkesbury, 2OO7 & 2012

3. Sweet Sabrina The Kingdom Of The Severn: Worcester & Felpham, 2012

4. Forgotten City The Humber Lake: Hull & Ferriby, 2OO7

5. The Colinda Spear Lost Worlds, East: Atlantis & Doggerland, 6200 BC

6. The Great Tide The East Coast, After The Storm: The Fens & Jaywick, December 2013

7. Little Venice River Dreams: Yalding, January 2014, & Morpeth, 2008

pt. TWO NOAH'S WOODS

8. The Storm The Somerset Levels, 1603 & January 2014

9. A Drowned World The Thames Valley, January & February 2014

10. The Sunken Hundred Lost Worlds, West: Westminster & Borth, May 2014

11. Isle of Thorns The Anchorage Drained: Moorland & Thorney, July 2014.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781447298199

1447298195

OCLC:

1096218911