John Aubrey looked at Salisbury Plain in the 1680s & thought of Virginia. Was the Plain’s openness not ancient & natural, but made by human intervention like the savannas of the Americas? New blog!
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Did John Aubrey — writing in the 1680s — come closer to the truth about Salisbury Plain than anyone had realised? In his Natural History of Wiltshire he asked a question: was this vast open landscape ...
