TY - BOOK ID - 5168401 TI - The making of the Cretan landscape AU - Rackham, Oliver AU - Moody, Jennifer Alice PY - 1996 SN - 0719036461 071903647X 9780719036460 9780719036477 PB - Manchester: Manchester University press, DB - UniCat KW - Landscapes KW - Paysages KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Crete (Greece) KW - Crète (Grèce) KW - Historical geography KW - Géographie historique KW - Landscape KW - -#WPLT:syst KW - Countryside KW - Natural scenery KW - Scenery KW - Scenic landscapes KW - Nature KW - -Historical geography KW - Geografie KW - History. KW - Landschapskunde KW - Historische geografie KW - Andere landen. KW - Historical geography. KW - Crète (Grèce) KW - Géographie historique KW - -Candia (Greece) KW - Creta (Greece) KW - Girit (Greece) KW - Girit Adasi (Greece) KW - Kirid (Greece) KW - Krit (Greece) KW - Kreta (Greece) KW - Krētē (Greece) KW - Kríti (Greece) KW - Nísos Kríti (Greece) KW - I Keretim (Greece) KW - I Kritim (Greece) KW - Periphereia Krētēs (Greece) KW - Periféreia Krítis (Greece) KW - Region of Crete (Greece) KW - Crete KW - #WPLT:syst KW - Candia (Greece) KW - Landscapes - Greece - Crete - History KW - Crete (Greece) - Historical geography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5168401 AB - This is the first book to help the visitor understand Crete's remarkable landscape, which is just as spectacular as the island's rich archaeological heritage. Crete is a wonderful and dramatic island, a miniature continent with precipitous mountains, a hundred gorges, unique plants, extinct animals and lost civilisations, as well as the characteristic agricultural landscape of olive groves, vines and goats, Jennifer Moody and Oliver Rackham explain how the island's peculiar and extraordinary features, moulded and modified by centuries of human activity, have come together to create the landscape we see today. They also explain the formation and ecology of Crete's beautiful mountains and coastline, and the contemporary threats to the island's fragile natural beauty. ER -