Excerpt from Mountain and Moorland The purpose of this little book is simple enough, but difficult of achievement. It is meant to interest in telligent people, holidayers included, in what is to be seen and enjoyed, enquired into and understood, in the wonderful Aladdin's Cave of the Mountains and Moorland. There is no risk of interfering with rest and recreation in getting interested in such subjects as mountain-making or peat-making, the secret of the heather, or the different ways of meeting the severe winter on the hillsides. The fact is that people who do not at least nibble at the endless brain-stretching, but not vexatious, problems which their surroundings present are miss ing a good deal both of the meaning and the fun of life. One of the difficulties, we believe, in the way of those who are organically interested in the world without is to make a start; and one of the objects of our simple studies is to supply the requisite introduc tion and a jumping-off place for individual investi gations. Each of our chapters may serve as a centre around which personal information will gather and crystallise, till the centre is hidden. References here and there to books may be of use as guide-posts to further adventures in the unending endeavour to understand our environment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.