£25.00
Title: The Wirral Peninsula-an Outline Regional Survey
Author: W Hewitt
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton: The University Press of Liverpool
Publication c1922 First Edition
Format: Hardback
Condition: Green covers with embossed titile to front and gilt lettering to spine. some bumping to corners and spine ends with some scuffing. No dust jacket. Pages are clean with no marks. Fold out maps at front and back of book with several other illustrations. Two stamps to the front of the book reading “deoartment of Geography University of Cambridge. Previous owners inscriptions to front.
Book measures: 19cm x 13cm with 299 pages
1 in stock
The Wirral Peninsula-an Outline Regional Survey by W Hewitt
MR. HEWITT has selected a small and well-defined area, and in successive chapters has considered its physical, biological, and human aspects, in an endeavour to explain the geographical evolution of the area. The social and economic conditions of any region must necessarily depend to a large extent on its position, natural features, soil, climate, and vegetation. Wirral is only some 1–30 square miles in extent and until the middle of the nineteenth century was almost entirely agricultural. But the rapid increase of manufacturingf industries across the Mersey and growing commercial importance of the Mersey estuary have resulted in an industrial invasion of the left bank of the river
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