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The Lost Fens is the history of the cultural landscape of the Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Yorkshire Fenlands from the Humber and the Vale of York, to Norfolk. The book draws together the story of changing landscapes, lost cultures and ways of life, and the wildlife that has gone, too. This story of destruction is the most dramatic example of ecological destruction in our history. Between 6,000 and 10,000 square kilometres of wetland present in the 1600s, was almost entirely obliterated by 1900. Gone 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. This is the history of a landscape, of a region, and of its people, long since passed away. It is a remarkable tale and, above all, a history of a lost ecology.
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Ian Rotherham is a Professor of Environmental Geography and a Reader in Tourism & Environmental Change at Sheffield Hallam University. An ecologist and landscape historian by training, he is an authority on wetlands and their history, on their management and, more recently, on associated tourism and economics. He has researched and written on a wide range of environmental and historical topics, with over 350 academic papers, books, and articles to his name.
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- PublisherThe History Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0752486993
- ISBN 13 9780752486994
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- Number of pages208
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