The man who turned the tide
JOHN WHITTOW is the last survivor of the founder committee that met in 1964 at the National Trust’s Westminster headquarters to plan Enterprise Neptune. He has now published his memoirs, The Edge of The Land, to explain how that groundbreaking effort to save the British shoreline from development and neglect came about.
The book is also the story of a man who has dedicated his life to the study of landforms, with a special focus on what he calls ‘the edge of the land, the zone where the three elements of earth, air and ocean truly
