❰Read❯ ➵ The Great Level Author Stella Tillyard – Qqpokerv.me ‘I am an engineer and a measured man of the world I prefer to weigh everything in the balance to calculate and to plan Yet my own heart is going faster than I can now count’ In 1649 Jan Brunt a DuRead The Great Level Author Stella Tillyard pokervme ‘I am an engineer and a measured man of the world I prefer to weigh everything in the balance to calculate and to plan Yet my own heart is going faster than I can now count’ In 1649 Jan Brunt a Du ‘I am an engineer and a measured man of the world I prefer to weigh everything in the balance to calculate and to plan Yet my own heart is going fa
great epub level mobile The Great epub The Great Level EpubSter than I can now count’ In Jan Brunt a Dutchman arrives in England to The Great Kindle 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
Ster than I can now count’ In Jan Brunt a Dutchman arrives in England to The Great Kindle 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
ePUB Stella Tillyard ñ ePUB The Great Level PDF Ò The GreatKindle - ñ pokervme great epub, level mobile, The Great epub, The Great Level EpubEver since I read the review in The Guardian I have wanted to read this book the story set in the mid of the 17th century of Jan Brunt a Dutch engineer who comes to East Anglia to drain the marshes is told in a most beautiful prose
ePUB Stella Tillyard ñ ePUB The Great Level PDF Ò The GreatKindle - ñ pokervme great epub, level mobile, The Great epub, The Great Level EpubThat is what I believed that time nibbles away at the future and in that moment puts the present behind its back The past retreats as each present moment joins it on and on Yet that is far too simple Inside us time sways backwards and forwards from now to then here to there and nothing of it is lost or goes away but it all hangs everywhere translucent in the a
ePUB Stella Tillyard ñ ePUB The Great Level PDF Ò The GreatKindle - ñ pokervme great epub, level mobile, The Great epub, The Great Level EpubBeautifully written Historical facts mixed with a personal story which I enjoyed very much The main characters are not worked out in depth The author observes them throughout their lives and relates the observations to the reader It's a fairytale style of writing but well done I felt I was there
ePUB Stella Tillyard ñ ePUB The Great Level PDF Ò The GreatKindle - ñ pokervme great epub, level mobile, The Great epub, The Great Level EpubNow this should have been a book I enjoyedIt has chapters set in my place of birth Kings Lynn and many others set at the very foundation of the City I visit monthly New York – as it transitions from New Amsterdam Golden HillThe Kings Lynn and Ely part is around the draining of the Fens – a landscape which has inspired great writing such as Fen by Dai
ePUB Stella Tillyard ñ ePUB The Great Level PDF Ò The GreatKindle - ñ pokervme great epub, level mobile, The Great epub, The Great Level EpubStella Tillyard’s The Great Level is an absolute stunner It’s everything that I want in an historical novel a completely immersive reading experience feeling submerged in a previously unknown historical epoch and previ
ePUB Stella Tillyard ñ ePUB The Great Level PDF Ò The GreatKindle - ñ pokervme great epub, level mobile, The Great epub, The Great Level EpubJan Brunt is a Dutchman who moves from the Netherlands to England to work on the drainage of the Fens around Ely Years later he's living in New Amsterdam and thinking back to his time in England in the 164os50s when the country was still in tumultuous times following the civil war I found this a little wordy at times and the story often moved slowly but it was beautifully written and an interesting story My only uibble is that the text was rather small and it felt a bit of a strain to read it
ePUB Stella Tillyard ñ ePUB The Great Level PDF Ò The GreatKindle - ñ pokervme great epub, level mobile, The Great epub, The Great Level EpubJan Brunt arrives in Norfolk to drain The Fens and increase the amount of arable land funded by Norfolk's famous son Oliver Cromwell In Norfolk he meets and starts a relationship with Eliza who later tells her story and becomes a three dimensional character on a page The story eventually moves to New Amsterdam where we find Jan a bit of a recluse still earning his way as an engineer I was fascinated by the story of draining The Fens as Norfolk is just north of Suffolk where I live The engineering and work involved in bending nature to human endeavour has always fascinated me and I wanted to find out about how you stop water from spreading in a low lying piece of land Ideally I would have loved a couple of maps one of Norfolk and one of New Amsterdam showing the difference between the modern day maps we are familiar with Those short comings aside this was a great book
ePUB Stella Tillyard ñ ePUB The Great Level PDF Ò The GreatKindle - ñ pokervme great epub, level mobile, The Great epub, The Great Level EpubThere are two problems with this book; one and its pace and two the ending Mostly told from the point of view of the engineer Jan Brunt the story creeps along at a frustrating pace until the second voice of Eliza is introduced She is brave intelligent and curious and ultimately she turns a punishment into an opportunityI can't help but feel that if Eliza's point of view and indeed her story was introduced a little earlier that this story would have been rounded and engaging For too long she is just a cardboard cut out character
ePUB Stella Tillyard ñ ePUB The Great Level PDF Ò The GreatKindle - ñ pokervme great epub, level mobile, The Great epub, The Great Level EpubWow she evokes so much life and vivid details of the fens Netherlands as well as the new land America in the early part of the 17th century Wow what a novel haunting and breathtaking and just rich in detail I wanted to savour every page This is one book I wanted to finish and yet did not want it to end I might be tempted to buy it
ePUB Stella Tillyard ñ ePUB The Great Level PDF Ò The GreatKindle - ñ pokervme great epub, level mobile, The Great epub, The Great Level EpubIt's surprising that the draining of the English Fens in the mid seventeenth century hasn't inspired novelists It's an event with plenty of material a country still reeling from a brutal civil war and regicide the culture clashes between the locals and the Dutch engineers brought over by the King to get the job done and between old established ways of life and the emerging modern world between religion and science and so on Stella Tillyard makes the most of this rich seam of history in Th