Europe's lost world - Vincent L. Gaffney

This excellent book, which deserves a wide readership, reports
on the work of the North Sea Palaeolandscapes Project, which has
been researching the fascinating lost landscape of Doggerland
which until after the end of the last Ice Age connected Britain to the
continent in the North Sea area. It aims to make the findings
available to a general readership, and show just how impressive
they have been, with nearly 23,000km2 mapped. The techniques used
to reconstruct the landscape are explained, and conclusions and
speculation about
the climate and vegetation of the area in the Mesolithic offered. It also tells the
story of the rediscovery of Doggerland, and the Mesolithic
landscape more generally, from the pioneering work
of Clement Reid in the nineteenth century, to the research of
Grahame Clark and Bryony Coles in the twentieth. It's also worth
pointing out just how well produced and illustrated the book is,
and one can only hope that it can spark public interest in a
comparatively little known phase of our prehistory.