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Tbe Society does not accept responsibility for opinions expressed by its contributors. Glaciers (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, many parts of Britain have been influenced by 1992). By MICHAEL]. HAMBREY and JURG ALEAN. glacial deposits and landforms, and so some 196 x 253 mm. 208 pp. 161 illustrations. 1 table. historians of the cultural landscape must inevitably ISBN 0 521 41915 8. Price £19.95. at times study human responses to glaciated landscapes. This book will illustrate, through The first impression on opening this book - a comparison, many of the features encountered in high quality product with massive pictorial interest our north-western uplands. - is confirmed when the pages are turned more Glaciers is therefore an enjoyable and superbly­ slowly. Glaciers are enduring, alluring phenomena produced book. It is well designed, attractively conveying power and purpose in their presence jacketed, interestingly written and free of and movement. Most people cannot experience typographic errors and editorial oversights. It might glaciers directly and certainly not in the diversity grace some coffee-tables; it should certainly be in and at the close quarters enjoyed by the two authors, public, school and college libraries, and it is hard but attraction to them is strong. This