{"product_id":"the-fens-discovering-englands-ancient-depths","title":"The Fens: Discovering England's Ancient Depths","description":"\u003cp\u003eA BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply personal and utterly enthralling way TONY ROBINSON.  Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it GUARDIAN.  Inland from the Wash  on Englands eastern cost  crisscrossed by substantial rivers and punctuated by soaring church spires  are the low-lying  marshy and mysterious Fens. Formed by marine and freshwater flooding  and historically wealthy owing to the fertility of their soils  the Fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are one of the most distinctive  neglected and extraordinary regions of England.  Francis Pryor has the most intimate of connections with this landscape. For some forty years he has dug its soils as a working archaeologist  making ground-breaking discoveries about the nature of prehistoric settlement in the area  and raising sheep in the flower-growing country between Spalding and Wisbech. In The Fens  he counterpoints the history of the Fenland landscape and its transformation  from Bronze age field systems to Iron Age hillforts; from the rise of prosperous towns such as Kings Lynn  Ely and Cambridge to the ambitious drainage projects that created the Old and New Bedford Rivers  with the story of his own discovery of it as an archaeologist.  Affectionate  richly informative and deftly executed  The Fens weaves together strands of archaeology  history and personal experience into a satisfying narrative portrait of a complex and threatened landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44950209331253,"sku":"ByrdShop_1786692228","price":92.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781786692221_5f9091e3-2a6c-42b4-9cd4-972ce59227cc.jpg?v=1770582385","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-fens-discovering-englands-ancient-depths","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}