Landmark in Time - The world of the Wittenham Clumps - Peter Adamson

With a novelist’s eye for narrative, and starting always from the Clumps, Peter Adamson takes us on a journey that leads from Colonial Massachusetts to the Indian Punjab, from the Antarctic Ice Barrier to the trenches of the Western Front, from the rise of the Red Kite to the future of the Chiltern’s beeches. Along the way, we come across a quiet village rectory that helped bring about the American Revolution, a peaceful farmhouse that gave us some of the greatest literature of war, a 1960s council estate with a glamorous past, a building that houses temperatures greater than the centre of the sun, and a local Manor House that became the stage for one of the most celebrated literary affairs of the twentieth century.