The Flood by Michael Brown

The Flood by Michael Brown

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What is it like to experience a flood? Michael Brown’s house was underwater for several weeks during the inundation of the Somerset Levels. He decided to stay on through it, and he was amazed at the ensuing chain of events. This well-written series of highlights of Michael’s diary are funny, observant, honest and unpredictable.

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The Flood by Michael Brown

What is it like to experience a flood? Michael Browns house was underwater for several weeks during the inundation of the Somerset Levels. He decided to stay on through it, and he was amazed at the ensuing chain of events. This well-written series of highlights of Michaels diary are funny, observant, honest and unpredictable.
Michael and his wife, Utta, spent most of their working lives on the Somerset Levels, Michael involved in elvers and eels and establishing a smokery and later a smokery restaurant. Now retired they still live in the same house on the river Parrett where they stayed dry for over thirty years. Until January 2014 when one of the biggest floods ever seen on the Levels inundated their house and several others in the village of Thorney. They were to remain under water for over seven weeks.
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ISBN 13 9781910723203
ISBN 10 1910723207
Title The Flood
Author Michael Brown
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Merlin Unwin Books
Year published 2016-09-01
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.