LIVERPOOL: A LANDSCAPE HISTORY

The landscape has had a huge impact on the history of Liverpool and Merseyside. Ice age glaciers carved out the Rivers Mersey and Dee; the Sefton coast provided a perfect place for the earliest human settlers to hunt and gather food; and the Pool and the Mersey gave King John the base from which to launch his Irish campaigns. This book explains why Liverpool looks the way it does today, how clues in the modern landscape reveal details of its long history, and how city and landscape have acted on one another.