A small feature on Radio 4 yesterday on a book by Chris Somerville which, on the sound of it, was another spot of "remember what geography used to be like..." - but that might just be how it was portrayed...
On a related note, there is the campaign to get Brian Blessed as the voice of Tom Tom Sat Nav, which appears to have been successful...
TURN RIGHT !!!!
GORDON'S ALIVE !!!!
Update:
A good review of the book in the Economist which talks about the respect that the author has for Geography and the past informing the present "living landscape"...
Physical geography is treated just as respectfully as its human counterpart. For Mr Somerville the flatlands of Cambridgeshire are just as beautiful, in their own way, as the looming, mist-cloaked isles that dot the western seas off Scotland or the moody moors of northern Yorkshire. That he can conjure such delights from the decidedly non-epic scale of the British landscape is a welcome reminder that there is a great deal of beauty and fascination in small things, providing one takes the time to look, instead of hurrying past on the way to a distant destination.
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