Buy this book on-line REDHEAD,BRIAN with NOBBS,AMANDA & ROWE,FRANCIS: : THE NATIONAL PARKS OF ENGLAND AND WALESUK.YEOVIL,SOMERSET.The OXFORD ILLUSTRATED PRESS LIMITED,1988. ISBN 0946609829.
UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
FINE+/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,
clean,glossy laminated,green background with superimposed,scenic colour photograph to each panel with
white+yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.A small abrasion towards the top edge and head of spine/backstrip's gutter's edge of upper panel of dw/dj and some light,
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sharp-cornered,glazed bds - scenic colour photographic dw/dj design repeated to the bds,and immaculate cream eps.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,
solid and sound - virtually as new - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-159pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters,profuse scenic colour photographs taken by Chris Swan,
interspersed throughout the text and
the book.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,preface by Brian Redhead (President of the Council for National Parks),contents list/
table,and the towards rear,Friend of
National Parks enrolment form,
National Park Donation information,
a seect biblio,and a page of National Parks addresses and 'phone numbers. The National Parks are the most beautiful parts of England and Wales.Ninety million people visit them every year.No one has to pay to
go in.They have boundaries but no frontiers.They are in the hands of many owners.And they are essential to the true health of the nation.
There are five National Parks in the North of England,two in the
South West of England,and three in Wales.The Broads can be added to those ten because it is now a National Park in all but name.
The National Parks were chosen because they are special.The purpose
of the legislation which defined them was to protect and enhance their beauty,to let people in,and to
keep inappropiate development out.
The purpose of the book is to re-affirm the original intention now that there are new threats.Even success has brought its problems.The
book argues that the Parks are paramount,and that the one question which must always be asked of any activity or development is this: how
will it protect and enhance the Park? Brian Redhead is President of the Council for National Paks,the charity which strives to protect the
Parks.He argues that the National Parks are not ours,but ours to look after,and that future generations will not forgive us if we fail to deliver to them their inheritance intact. To argue this is not to oppose change,but to reject folly and greed
and to encourage good things in these beautiful places.The National Park Authorities have difficult decisions to take and they need the support of all those who cherish the Parks.
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