The Rising Down

'Remarkable.' THE TIMES 'Wonderful.' GUARDIAN 'Fascinating.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A landscape-keyhole onto the whole world . . . Glorious.' Robert Macfarlane 'A thrill akin to discovering buried treasure.' RICHARD MABEY When Alexandra Harris returned to her childhood home of West Sussex, she realised that she barely knew the place at all. As she probed beneath the surface, excavating layers of ar...