Publisher; Hodder Stoughton
Author; Hammond Innes
Titled; East Anglia
I found the book in the mobile library and was interested to read,
''the east of England was almost covered with forest, from Epping to The Fens, with only the chalklands and the heathlands to lift travellers out of the mud and swamp of forest tracks.''
Perhaps that's one of the reasons why they used so much timber to build houses and ships because many people were fed up with sloshing around in the dark.
''... how many acres of oak were felled to build Lavenham,'' '' ... walking through it at dawn, when the old streets are deserted, is like walking through a petrified forest ...''.
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Hammond Innes! I'd forgotten all about him. He used to be a favourite author in my youth. Is he still alive and still writing? I must get this book. Thanks, Patricia.New comment
PS He's right about Lavenham, isn't he? Lovely place, lots of wood! Wasn't Henry VIII responsible for denuding large stretches of forest to build warships? They didn't worry about that sort of thing in those day.