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2) The draining of the Fens: projectors, popular politics, and state building in early modern England
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet little understood role they play in preserving the environment--by storing the carbon emissions that greatly contribute to climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four stunning parts, Proulx documents the long-misunderstood...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When two long-dead bodies are discovered near wintry Cambridgeshire Fens, news reporter Philip Dryden discovers that both victims are linked to an event from 1966 during which his own life was saved while his wife was left to die.
Author
Publisher
Farrar/Straus/Giroux
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
James's difficulty in adjusting to a new school and life in the Fens is further complicated by the request of an elderly neighbor to find his lucky piece, a task which puts James in some danger.
Author
Series
Aelf Fen Norman volume 5
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Apprentice healer Lassair isn't too alarmed when a travelling peddler relates a grisly tale of a red-bearded giant breaking into a woman's home and caving in her skull like an eggshell; peddlers, she has observed, tend towards the dramatic. But her attitude changes when she learns that the dead woman is a distant relation. The incident makes Lassair's family uneasy, for the intruder seemed to be searching for something. What could it be? Lassair has...
Author
Series
Aelf Fen Norman volume 7
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Called out to attend a body found on a lonely stretch of river bank, its throat torn out, apprentice healer Lassair is skeptical of the sheriff's verdict that this was the result of a wild animal attack. But when a second body is discovered, similarly mutilated, rumors engulf the town that the legendary demon known as the Night Wanderer has returned to wreak havoc.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Pub Ltd
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Autumn of 1093, Lassair encounters a veiled noblewoman on the quay at Cambridge, set on by an angry mob. She has no idea that the woman, alone but for her infant child, brings both mystery and peril. Then a devastating flood hits the fens, and among the wreckage washed up Aelf Fen is a body. Lassair, in the company of a sheriff's officer, wonders if she is dealing with murder. Meanwhile, in the south, Lassair's beloved Rollo is moving with relief...
15) Deep is the Fen
Author
Series
Hunger of thorns volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Merry doesn't need a happily-ever-after. Her life in the charming, idyllic town of Candlecott is fine just as it is. Simple, happy, and with absolutely no magic. Magic only ever leads to trouble. But Merry's best friend, Teddy, is joining the Toadmen--a secret society who specialize in backward thinking and suspiciously supernatural traditions--and Merry is determined to stop him. Even if it means teaming up with the person she hates most: her academic...
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