Author: William DugdalePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The History Of Imbanking and Drayning Of Divers Fenns and Marshes, Both in Forein Parts And In This Kingdom; And of the Improvements Thereby
Author: William DugdalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The History of Imbanking and Draining of Divers Fens and Marshes Both in Foreign Parts and in this Kingdom, and of Improvements Thereby
Author: Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Draining of the Fens
Author: H. C. DarbyPublisher: 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.
A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire
Author: William Henry WheelerPublisher: 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.
Marshlands
Author: Matthew George HatvanyPublisher: Presses Université Laval
ISBN: 9782763780498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The John Crerar Library
Author: John Crerar libraryPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Lost Fens
Author: Ian D. RotherhamPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752492683
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The loss of the great fenlands of eastern England is the greatest single removal of ecology in our history. So thorough was the process that most visitors to the regions, or even people living there, have little idea of what has gone. For many, the Fenlands are the vast expansive flatlands of intensive farming, the 'breadbaskets' of Britain. Lost are the vast flocks of wetland birds that filled the evening skies in winter, the frozen wetlands and the fen skaters of the winter, and the abundant black terns or breeding wading birds of the summer months. However, pause a while off main roads and consider place names and road names: Fenny Lane, The Withies, Commonside, Reed Holme, Fen Common, Turbary Lane, Wildmore, Adventurers' Fen, Wicken Fen, and more; they tell a story of a landscape now gone but once hugely important. The Fens bred revolution and civil war and paid the penalty. They nurtured religious non-conformism with global impact. After 1066, the Saxons withheld the Normans' onslaught, and in the 1970s, unting's Beavers took action against twentieth-century invaders. The fenscapes, neither water nor land but something in-between, breed independence and, if necessary, dissention. This story is of politically and economically driven ecological catastrophe and loss. So much has gone, but we do not even know fully what was there before. With global environmental change, and especially climate change, fenlands once again have major roles in our sustainable futures.
The General Biographical Dictionary
Author: Alexander ChalmersPublisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Library Bulletin
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: United States. Dept. of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 702
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