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British Outdoor Recreation Policies and Experience in the Twentieth Century

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THIS CHAPTER SEEKS to portray the main recreational developments that have taken place in Great Britain during the present century and to explore the motivating factors. Events in the latter part of the nineteenth century are examined briefly and some comparisons are made with developments in the United States.

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    Ivor H. Seeley B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., F.R.I.C.S., C.Eng., F.I.Mun.E. (Head of Department of Surveying)

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Seeley, I.H. (1973). British Outdoor Recreation Policies and Experience in the Twentieth Century. In: Outdoor Recreation and the Urban Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01815-4_5

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