- Title
- Looking at landscapes
- Creator
- Lewis, Colin A
- Date
- 1991
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- vital:576
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006731
- Description
- [From text] Landscape, for me, is Geography, for landscape is the focus of the four great traditions of my subject: spatial; area studies; man-land relationships; earth science (Pattison, 1964,1990). Hedd Wyn and Thomas Roberts, each in his own way, was a Geographer, for each was obviously a student of landscape. My own interest in Geography originated in the view from my bedroom window. I was lucky, Dad was a clergyman, and when he came bade from the army he accepted the parish of St. Peter's Glasbury, in the Wye valley of Wales. From my bedroom window I looked out across The Vicarage lawn, beyond the yew hedge and the orchard, to a series of mounds set in parkland. They were orderly, forming the outline of a rectangle, and when a group of archaeologists excavated the site they discovered that the mounds were the remains of the walls of an Iron Age fort (Savoury, 1955). Although I did not know it at the time, the landscape was already talking to me.
- Description
- Inaugural Lecture delivered at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 17 April 1991
- Format
- 32 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Lewis, C.A. (1991) Looking at landscapes. Inaugural Lecture delivered at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 17 April 1991.
- Rights
- Lewis, Colin A.
- Rights
- CC BY-NC-SA : Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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