The Fens: Discovering England's Ancient Depths Steven Saylor A bizarre clue

A bizarre clue

so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store

The only two people on earth who can wrest the world from the iron grasp of Aquitaine

he starts to realise that not only has one of his own men been compromised

and a strange British couple who chose to remain in Spain while the rest of Europe was engulfed in flames

The Fens: Discovering England's Ancient Depths Steven Saylor A bizarre clueThe Fens are a distinctive, complex, man made and little understood landscape. Francis Pryor has lived in, excavated, farmed, walked and loved the Fen Country for more than forty years: its levels and drains, its soaring churches, its magnificent medieval buildings. In The Fens, he counterpoints the history of the Fen landscape and its transformation the great drainage projects that created the Old and New Bedford Rivers, the Ouse Washes and Bedford