Through stunning images and insightful narrative, Fenland Nature celebrates the natural and cultural history of a unique, dynamic and dramatic human-made landscape. From vast flocks of visiting wildfowl, to rare and specialised plants and insects, from the Mesolithic to the present day - with an eye on the future.
Over the last centuries of the millennium, the fenlands of East Anglia have been drastically tamed. The drainage of the Fens was an ecological disaster but within their tiny remnants there are still traces of a lost world. This book documents, with stunning photographs and insightful text, the ecological richness in these pockets of ancient fen.
