Non-Fiction / Agriculture, Conservation, Countryside. / A History of the Fens by J. Wentworth -Day J. Wentworth -Day George Harrap, 1954, first edition : red cloth hardcover: 272 pages including index: black and white photographic illustration. Synopsis: As  its full title suggests, this "  History of the Fens, Being Some Account of Their Swamps, Meres, Men, Sports, Duck Decoys, Drainage, Riots , Floods, Legends, Fish, and Fowl." describes the watery world of the  fens before the event of potato fields, tractor sheds, orchards, and concrete roads.  The author concentrates on the lives and characters of  fen people: the  harsh but beautiful landscapes, and  fauna and flora surrounding them;  their constant war against  water ;  and their occupations and pastimes. Contents- chapters entitled:--.  The last of the old fen.  The fens of St Guthlac and Hereward.  The Bedford Level.  The Lincolnshire Fens .  The buried forests of the fens.  Whittlesey -- the last of the great meres. Lord Orford's voyage through the fens.  Fen farming of old.  Duck decoys in the fens.  Fen -Bill Hall, a forgotten eccentric.  Some old Fen Fowlers and Fen Tigers.  More fen gunners and characters.  Fen shooting in bygone days.  The Upware  Republic and some Cambridge Sportsman.  The Ely and Littleport riots.  On birds and animals and fish.  Black Winter.  Bibliography.  Index  Condition: no dust jacket: cover edges very  rubbed: foxing to preliminary pages and page edging : contents very clean: overall collectable and acceptable used books
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  • Book Title: A History of the Fens
  • Author: J. Wentworth -Day
  • ISBN: mw00197531
  • Publisher: George Harrap and Co.
  • Year Published: 1954
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