Lead Mining Land the Northern Pennines healthy eating A humorous and very personal

A humorous and very personal guide written by Bill Bailey about his favourite British birds

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Jeffrey Gibson

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Lead Mining Land the Northern Pennines healthy eating A humorous and very personalAn 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