Haweswater
It is 1936 in a remote dale in the old, northern county of Westmorland. For centuries the rural community has remained the same and the Lightburn family have been immersed in the harsh hill-farming tradition - unchanged by the advent of modernity. Then a man from the city of Manchester arrives, spokesman for a vast industrial project which will devastate both the landscape and the local community. Mardale will be flooded to create a new reservoir, supplying water to the Midland cities. In the coming year this corner of Lakeland will be evacuated and transformed.Jack Liggett, the Waterworks' representative, further compounds the problems faced…
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- ISBN: 978-0-571-26763-7
- EAN: 9780571267637
- Produktnummer: 13896714
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 391 KB
- Auflage: Main
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