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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Boris Hiestand & Maggie Service. |
| Summary |
Spanning several decades in seventeenth century Great Britain and America, this impressive piece of work, rich in detail and human insight is an unforgettable love story exploring the power of nature versus man and man versus woman. 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 arrives in Great Britain from the Netherlands to work on draining and developing an expanse of marshy wetlands known as the Great Level. It is here in this wild country that he meets Eliza, a local woman whose love overturns his ordered vision. Determined to help her strive beyond her situation, Jan is heedless of her devotion to her home and way of life. When she uses the education Jan has given her to sabotage his work, Eliza is brutally punished, and Jan flees to the New World. In the American colonies, profiteers on Manatus Eyland are hungry for viable land to develop, and Jan's skills as an engineer are highly prized. His prosperous new life is rattled, however, on a spring morning when a boy delivers a note that prompts him to remember the Great Level, and confront all that was lost there. Eliza has made it to the New World and is once again using the education Jan gave her to bend the landscape-this time to find her own place of freedom. *Note: This book was published in the UK under the title The Great Level. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Engineers -- Fiction.
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Wetlands -- England -- Fiction.
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Wetlands -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
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Land use -- England -- Fiction.
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Land use -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Fiction.
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New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Hiestand, Boris, narrator.
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Service, Maggie, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781508298816 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1508298815 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14002605 |
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