Gordon Le Pard is a noted member of the Dorset Coast Forum. He has so far produced several articles and two books.

The first of these books (co-written with Richard Burden

Richard Burden

Richard Burden is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Northfield since 1992. Together with close friend and fellow ex-Young Liberal Peter Hain M.P., he was an enthusiastic supporter of the ill-fated Alternative Vote system in the May 2011...

), A New View of Dorset was published in 1996 by Dorset Books. It was the first comprehensive study of the rich and varied landscape

Landscape

Landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including the physical elements of landforms such as mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of...

 of Dorset

Dorset

Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...

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His second book, written solely by Le Pard, was Shipwrecks of the Dorset Coast. It was published in 2005 by Halsgrove Publishing. This Book contains a wide and fascinating array of photographs of Dorset Shipwreck

Shipwreck

A shipwreck is what remains of a ship that has wrecked, either sunk or beached. Whatever the cause, a sunken ship or a wrecked ship is a physical example of the event: this explains why the two concepts are often overlapping in English....

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