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England, the Autobiography: 2,000 Years of English History by Those Who Saw it Happen by John Lewis-Stempel
$45.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Fountainhead of democracy, engine of the Industrial Revolution, epicentre of the globe's greatest empire, and the first-ditch stand against an expansionist Germany in two world wars: England's history is among the most fascinating and influential the world has ever known. This volume presents that histo ...Show more
Glorious Life of the Oak by John Lewis-Stempel
$27.99 AUD
Category: Animals/Pets
The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth. It is the lynch pin of the British landscape.' The oak is our most beloved and most common tree. It has roots that stretch back to all the old European cultures but Britain has more ancient oaks than all the other European countries put together. More ...Show more
Meadowland The Private Life of an English Field by John Lewis-Stempel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Paperback Fiction
WINNER OF THE THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2015What really goes on in the long grass?Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow?s life from January to December, together with its biography. In exquisite prose, John Lewis-Stempel records the passage of the seasons from cowslips in ...Show more
Still Water - The Deep Life of the Pond by John Lewis-Stempel
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
______________BEST BOOKS FOR NATURE LOVERS 2019 - Daily MailBEST NATURE BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2019 - The Times and Irish Independent'A beautifully written celebration of one of the natural world's most fertile founts of biodiversity and artistic inspiration ... A call to arms.' - The TimesThe Pond. Nothing ...Show more
The Private Life of the Hare by John Lewis-Stempel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Animals/Pets
'To see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt . . . these are great things. Every field should have a hare.' The hare, a night creature and country-dweller, is a rare sight for most people. We know them only from legends and stories. They are ...Show more
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Paperback Fiction
Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List. The corncrake is all but extinct in England. And the hare is running for its life. Written in exquisite prose, The Running H ...Show more
The Secret Life of the Owl by John Lewis-Stempel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Animals/Pets
'Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light. Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started calling, Hoo-hoo-hoo-h-o-o-o.' There is something about owls. They feature in every major culture from the Stone Age onwards. They are creatures of the night, and thus of magic. T ...Show more
The Sheep's Tale - The Story of Our Most Misunderstood Farmyard Animal by John Lewis-Stempel
$36.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
A warm and personal biography of the sheep by one of our most celebrated nature writers.Everybody thinks they know everything about sheep, because there is nothing to know. They are stupid, noisy, cowardly ('lambs to the slaughter'), and they're 'sheepwrecking' the environment.Or maybe not. Contrary to ...Show more
The Soaring Life of the Lark by John Lewis-Stempel
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
"How to describe the ecstatic song of larks? How the writers and poets have tried..."Skylarks are the heralds of our countryside. Their music is the quintessential sound of spring. The spirit of English pastoralism, they inspire poets, composers and farmers alike. In the trenches of World War I they wer ...Show more
The War Behind the Wire: The Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War, 1914-18 by John Lewis-Stempel
$45.00 AUD
Category: War/Military
On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the truth. British Prisoners of War merely exchanged one barbed-wire battleground for another. In the camps the war was eternal. There was the war against the German military, ...Show more
The Wild Life of the Fox by John Lewis-Stempel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Paperback Fiction
"I adore the fox for its magnificence; I hate the fox for killing my chickens.To love and loathe the fox is a British condition."The fox is our apex predator, our most beautiful and clever killer. We have witnessed its wild touch, watched it slink by bins at night and been chilled by its high-pitched sc ...Show more
The Wood by John Lewis-Stempel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Paperback Fiction
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' from 'indisputably, one of the best nature-writers of his generation' (Country Life)Written in diary format, The Woodis the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons. Lyrical and informative, steeped in poetry and folklore, Th ...Show more
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