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The book features a series of textual posters, poems, photographs, a map and audio CD that provides a soundtrack in response to Dartmoor.

These two lines of enquiry formed the building blocks I took into my discussions with South Dartmoor Community College and Devon Arts in School initiative (daisi). In a creative collaboration involving thirty young people, five teachers, daisi and myself we devised cross-curriculum plans (Geography and Art) that involved the whole of year group 8, two field research trips out onto Dartmoor, four creative writers and three National Park guides. Where we considered human intervention in the Dartmoor landscape, both in the past and looking towards the future.