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John Lewis-Stempel
John Lewis-Stempel: Night Life
Britain’s finest nature writer John Lewis-Stempel heads back out into the night to discover how nocturnal wildlife takes charge of their ink-black domain.
Using the stars above as his guide, and only his faithful dog by his side, he moves across the wilderness to explore the effect the night has on our senses, and see what we can learn from our animal friends.
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England: A Natural History
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Foraging: A practical guide to finding and preparing free wild food
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The Best of British Nature's Food and Drink for Free
La Vie: A year in rural France
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Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
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What really goes on in the long grass? This book gives an intimate account of an English meadow's life from January to December, together with its biography.
Private Life of the Hare
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THE PERFECT STOCKING FILLER FOR NATURE LOVERS 'To see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt . They are arrogant, as in Aesop's The Hare and the Tortoise, and absurd, as in Lewis Carroll's Mad March Hare.
Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland
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Traditional ploughland is disappearing. The corncrake is all but extinct in England. And the hare is running for its life. This book tells the story of the wild animals and plants that live in and under our ploughland, from microbes to the patrolling kestrel above the corn, from the linnet to seven-spot ladybirds that eat aphids that eat the crop.
Secret Life of the Owl
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But owls - with the sapient flatness of their faces, their big, round eyes, their paternal expressions - are also reassuringly familiar. We see them as wise, like Athena's owl, and loyal, like Harry Potter's Hedwig. In The Secret Life of the Owl, John Lewis-Stempel explores the legends and history of the owl.
Still Water: The Deep Life of the Pond
£9.89 £10.99
The Times and Irish Independent: BEST NATURE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Great nature writing needs to be informative, detailed, accurate, lyrical, and, above all, to instil a sense of gratitude and wonder.
The Curious Life of the Cuckoo
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The Glorious Life of the Oak
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it considers the life-cycle of the oak, the flora and fauna that depend on the oak, the oak as medicine, food and drink, where Britain's mightiest oaks can be found, and it tells of oak stories from folklore, myth and legend.
The Soaring Life of the Lark
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The Wild Life of the Fox
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To love and loathe the fox is a British condition." The fox is our apex predator, our most beautiful and clever killer.
The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood
£8.99 £9.99
Lyrical and informative, steeped in poetry and folklore, The Wood inhabits the mind and touches the soul. For four years John Lewis-Stempel managed Cockshutt wood, a particular wood - three and half acres of mixed woodland in south west Herefordshire - that stands as exemplar for all the small woods of England.
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