The Washington Post, January 11th, 1987
STRETCHING EASTWARD from the small English university town of Cambridge is a flat landscape that looks at first sight bleak. This is the fen country of East Anglia. You need to move through it quietly for a while before your eyes adjust to a scale where the details of very close and very far are more important than the middle distance we normally live with. Then you might find that the melancholy of the fenland, though real, is not the whole story. There is beauty here, though even the secret, happy places never quite lose an air of vulnerability-the evanescence they seem to share with all lan...
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