DAYS & NIGHTS ON HUNTER'S FEN Humphreys SIGNIERT East Anglian Fens, Wildfowling
DAYS AND NIGHTS ON HUNTER'S FEN JOHN HUMPHREYS DAVID & CHARLES 1992 Signed. 27 x 20 cm. 192 pp. HB/DJ Desolate, remote, yet full of the echoes of history, the East Anglian fens are a perfect habitat for today's wildfowler, wanderer and fisherman. They have a strange and wild history, for savage Vikings, monks, Romans, adventurers, dour Dutch drainers and a creeping race of mongrel Britons have all, in their time, navigated the slow, meandering rivers. Later, the Penman was to wrest a precarious living from eels, fish, wildfowl, reed and peat cutting; from duck decoys, copro-lite mines and herding bullocks, keeping at bay as best he might the ague and clouds of poisonous mosquitoes. The underlying theme was water, the ever present risk of floods, dykes, drains,'washes, leams and cuts of his half-tamed waterland.
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