This is a book written by a geologist and Dorset's foremost authority on its building stones and quarries. Scholarly, readable, often surprising and full of fascinating detail, it provides the key to the pattern of building across the county. As well as including a list of the building stones used in each parish in the county, and nearly 200 maps, diagrams and photographs, the author has included close-ups of the various stones, some greatly magnified to show the subtle differences between them.

Paperback, 128 pages, 260x220mm, 200 colour maps, diagrams & photographs