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'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMES

WINNER OF THE THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2015

What 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 spring to the hay-cutting of summer and grazing in autumn, and includes the biographies of the animals that inhabit the grass and the soil beneath: the badger clan, the fox family, the rabbit warren,the skylark brood and the curlew pair, among others. Their births, lives, and deaths are stories that thread through the book from first page to last.

Meadowland: the private life of an English field

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    Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
    Publication Date: 26/03/2015
    ISBN13: 9780552778992, 978-0552778992
    ISBN10: 0552778990

    Number of Pages: 304

    Non Fiction , Natural History

    Description

    _________________

    'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMES

    WINNER OF THE THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2015

    What 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 spring to the hay-cutting of summer and grazing in autumn, and includes the biographies of the animals that inhabit the grass and the soil beneath: the badger clan, the fox family, the rabbit warren,the skylark brood and the curlew pair, among others. Their births, lives, and deaths are stories that thread through the book from first page to last.

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