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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Withy-growers and peat-cutters drainage-men and catchers of the eels that infiltrate every ditch and damp corner of the place have over sixty centuries shaped the extraordinary landscape of a wetland. Together Patrick Sutherland and Adam Nicolson have photographed and talked to many of the men and women for whom this beautiful amphibious and forgotten part of England forms the background and substance to their lives. It is now a place under pressure threatened on the one hand by the forces of modern farming and on the other by the complex contradictory demands of conservation. But for the moment at least this alluring book can provide a means as subtle as the eel’s of entering and exploring the heart and mind of a wetland. (MP)