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The great level / Stella Tillyard.

Tillyard, Stella, (author.).

Summary:

In 1649, Jan Brunt, a Dutchman, arrives in England to work on draining and developing the Great Level, an expanse of marsh in the heart of the fen country. it is here he meets Eliza, whose love overturns his ordered vision and whose act of resistance forces him to see the world differently. Jan flees to the New World, where the spirit of avarice is raging and his skills as an engineer are prized. Then one spring morning a boy delivers a note that prompts him to remember the fens, and confront all that was lost there.

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  • ISBN: 9780701183196 (hc)
  • Physical Description: 232 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus, 2018.
Subject: New York (N.Y.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Fiction.
Fens, The (England) > Fiction.
New York (State) > New York.

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