Author: Daisy Johnson
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 155597967X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A singular debut that “marks the emergence of a great, stomping, wall-knocking talent” (Kevin Barry) Daisy Johnson’s Fen, set in the fenlands of England, transmutes the flat, uncanny landscape into a rich, brooding atmosphere. From that territory grow stories that blend folklore and restless invention to turn out something entirely new. Amid the marshy paths of the fens, a teenager might starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl and grow jealous of her friend. A boy might return from the dead in the guise of a fox. Out beyond the confines of realism, the familiar instincts of sex and hunger blend with the shifting, unpredictable wild as the line between human and animal is effaced by myth and metamorphosis. With a fresh and utterly contemporary voice, Johnson lays bare these stories of women testing the limits of their power to create a startling work of fiction.
Fen
Author: Daisy Johnson
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 155597967X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A singular debut that “marks the emergence of a great, stomping, wall-knocking talent” (Kevin Barry) Daisy Johnson’s Fen, set in the fenlands of England, transmutes the flat, uncanny landscape into a rich, brooding atmosphere. From that territory grow stories that blend folklore and restless invention to turn out something entirely new. Amid the marshy paths of the fens, a teenager might starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl and grow jealous of her friend. A boy might return from the dead in the guise of a fox. Out beyond the confines of realism, the familiar instincts of sex and hunger blend with the shifting, unpredictable wild as the line between human and animal is effaced by myth and metamorphosis. With a fresh and utterly contemporary voice, Johnson lays bare these stories of women testing the limits of their power to create a startling work of fiction.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 155597967X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A singular debut that “marks the emergence of a great, stomping, wall-knocking talent” (Kevin Barry) Daisy Johnson’s Fen, set in the fenlands of England, transmutes the flat, uncanny landscape into a rich, brooding atmosphere. From that territory grow stories that blend folklore and restless invention to turn out something entirely new. Amid the marshy paths of the fens, a teenager might starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl and grow jealous of her friend. A boy might return from the dead in the guise of a fox. Out beyond the confines of realism, the familiar instincts of sex and hunger blend with the shifting, unpredictable wild as the line between human and animal is effaced by myth and metamorphosis. With a fresh and utterly contemporary voice, Johnson lays bare these stories of women testing the limits of their power to create a startling work of fiction.
Fen, Bog and Swamp
Author: Annie Proulx
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 198217336X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment-by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are crucial to the earth's survival, and in four illuminating parts, Proulx documents their systemic destruction in pursuit of profit. In a vivid and revelatory journey through history, Proulx describes the fens of 16th-century England, Canada's Hudson Bay lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire, and America's Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. She introduces the early explorers who launched the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands-the Ague, malaria, Marsh Fever. A sobering look at the degradation of wetlands over centuries and the serious ecological consequences, this is "an unforgettable and unflinching tour of past and present, fixed on a subject that could not be more important" (Bill McKibben)"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 198217336X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment-by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are crucial to the earth's survival, and in four illuminating parts, Proulx documents their systemic destruction in pursuit of profit. In a vivid and revelatory journey through history, Proulx describes the fens of 16th-century England, Canada's Hudson Bay lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire, and America's Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. She introduces the early explorers who launched the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands-the Ague, malaria, Marsh Fever. A sobering look at the degradation of wetlands over centuries and the serious ecological consequences, this is "an unforgettable and unflinching tour of past and present, fixed on a subject that could not be more important" (Bill McKibben)"--
A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire
Author: William Henry Wheeler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108066410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
This expanded 1896 second edition gives a detailed history of the reclamation and drainage of the Fens of South Lincolnshire.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108066410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
This expanded 1896 second edition gives a detailed history of the reclamation and drainage of the Fens of South Lincolnshire.
The History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens, Called Bedford Level
Author: Esq. Samuel Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bedford Level (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bedford Level (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
The history of the drainage of the great level of the Fens, called Bedford level; with the constitution and laws of the Bedford level corporation. 2 vols. [and map].
Author: Samuel Wells (barrister.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
The History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens, Called Bedford Level; with the Constitution and Laws of the Bedford Level Corporation
Author: Samuel Wells (Registrar to the Bedford Level Corporation.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Fen. Freya North
Author: Freya North
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780007462216
Category : Art historians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two very different men, one very difficult decision. You wait forever for a real man ... Then two turn up at once. Fen McCabe has only ever been in love once. So what if he's a long dead nineteenth century artist? She's an art historian. She calls it job satisfaction; her friends and family call it insanity. But then her path crosses not just with handsome publisher Matt Holden, but also with brooding landscape gardener James Caulfield - twenty years her senior. Though she fights it, Fen finds herself falling for both of them in a haze of sex, art and severe indecision ... Does she really have to choose?
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780007462216
Category : Art historians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two very different men, one very difficult decision. You wait forever for a real man ... Then two turn up at once. Fen McCabe has only ever been in love once. So what if he's a long dead nineteenth century artist? She's an art historian. She calls it job satisfaction; her friends and family call it insanity. But then her path crosses not just with handsome publisher Matt Holden, but also with brooding landscape gardener James Caulfield - twenty years her senior. Though she fights it, Fen finds herself falling for both of them in a haze of sex, art and severe indecision ... Does she really have to choose?
Vegetation and Hydrology of Floating Rich-fens
Author: Geert van Wirdum
Publisher: Geert van Wirdum
ISBN: 9052910456
Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher: Geert van Wirdum
ISBN: 9052910456
Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Alkaline fens
Author: Nilsson, Kristian
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 9289345128
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Alkaline fens are species rich wetlands that today are threatened. Nature conservation officers and experts of alkaline fens from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden visited alkaline fens in Sweden and Finland to discuss the current situation. Restoration and management can be expensive and there is a need to find more appropriate ways to manage and restore alkaline fens.
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 9289345128
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Alkaline fens are species rich wetlands that today are threatened. Nature conservation officers and experts of alkaline fens from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden visited alkaline fens in Sweden and Finland to discuss the current situation. Restoration and management can be expensive and there is a need to find more appropriate ways to manage and restore alkaline fens.
The Draining of the Fens
Author: H. C. Darby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107402980
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
The text is ambitious in scope, reflecting the author's position as a historical geographer, and covers a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from geology to socio-economic analysis. Numerous illustrative figures are contained, including maps, diagrams and photographs of the area, and a bibliography is also provided.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107402980
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
The text is ambitious in scope, reflecting the author's position as a historical geographer, and covers a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from geology to socio-economic analysis. Numerous illustrative figures are contained, including maps, diagrams and photographs of the area, and a bibliography is also provided.