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La Vie by John Lewis-Stempel
$49.99 AUD
Category: Travel
The Charente- roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun. The baker does his rounds in his battered little white van with a hundred warm baguettes in the back, while a cat picks its way past a Romanesque church, the sound of bells skipping across miles ...Show more
Meadowland The Private Life of an English Field by John Lewis-Stempel
$26.99 AUD
Category: Nature
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
Nightwalking - Four Journeys into Britain after Dark by John Lewis-Stempel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the other way, tipped my cap, said hello. The animals do not expect us humans to be abroad in the dark, which is their time, when the world still belongs to them. That was in winter. The screaming of a tawny ...Show more
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Nature
The Sunday Times Bestseller - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 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 ...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 Wild Life of the Fox by John Lewis-Stempel
$26.99 AUD
Category: Nature
"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
Woodston: An English Farm - A Biography by John Lewis-Stempel
$62.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
In the beginning was the earth... From the Paleozoic volcanoes that stained its soil, to the Saxons who occupied it, to the Tudors who traded its wool, to the Land Girls of wartime, John Lewis-Stempel charts a sweeping, lyrical history of Woodston: the quintessential English farm. With his combined sk ...Show more
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