![]() ![]() ![]() Rotherham provides an insight into this forgotten part of the Yorkshire landscape. Whilst there is little trace of the fens within the landscape, through his writing, Ian D. ![]() Within the book, it is stated that 'the fens were removed, almost without a trace left'. This is because the fenland areas within Yorkshire have been largely lost over the years. Generally speaking, Yorkshire is an area which is not well known for its fenlands, at least not in the same what that Cambridgeshire is. This book ticks many boxes - interesting, informative and enlightening. He goes on to suggest how we, as a society, may try (and in some cases are trying) to alleviate problems such as wholesale flooding that our civilisation has caused, in its struggle to prosper, during the virtual destruction of the once great Fenlands of Yorkshire over the last 400 years. Illustrations (including maps, photographs, paintings and extracts from historic documents) abound as the professor expertly takes us on a journey to then attempt to answer that very question, drawing together the story of a changing landscape and, unfortunately, the cultures and wildlife that has been lost forever. Ian Rotherham's book initially poses the question 'Whodunnit?' regarding why the 3,000 or so square kilometres of land that had once comprised the Northern Fenlands of Yorkshire has disappeared. ![]()
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