With a roller coaster history of economic boom followed by crushing bust, the Central African Copperbelt has come to epitomise Africa’s faltering ‘Industrial Revolution’.1 Throughout the twentieth century, its large-scale industrial copper mines attracted people, capital and power across national and continental boundaries. Following a protracted period of expansion after 1945,…
Assynt is well known for its complex geology and was the field laboratory of 19th-century geologists Benjamin Peach and John Horne, who pioneered geological mapping techniques and the modern understanding of processes of geological thrust, opening up new possibilities in the study of landscape formation and evolution. Some of the world’s oldest rocks are found in Assynt, gneis…
By the beginning of this book, Bill and Allie are married and the latter has changed her name from Mannering to Cunningham. They have arranged to take Philip, Jack, Dinah and Lucy-Ann to the countryside for the Easter Holidays, to a place called Little Brockleton, where Philip and Jack plan to watch badgers and owls. At the last minute, Bill asks if he can bring another boy too — the foreign …