Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape by Jeremy Harte Groundswell Speaker 2024 Paul Harding's This Other Eden

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Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape by Jeremy Harte Groundswell Speaker 2024 Paul Harding's This Other EdenAccording to legend, the English landscape so calm on the surface is really the Devil's work. Cloven Country, now in paperback, tells of rocks hurled into place and valleys carved out by infernal labour. The Devil's hideous strength laid down great roads in one night, and left scars everywhere as the hard stone melted like wax under those burning feet. With roots in medieval folklore, this is not the Satan of prayer, but a clumsy ogre, easily fooled