Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
A Nature, Natural History, Animals book. you rise at dawn in May you can savour the world before the pandemonium...
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,...
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- Pages: 293 pages
- ISBN: 9780857521453 / 857521454
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To stand alone in a field in England and listen to the morning chorus of the birds is to remember why life is precious. John Lewis-Stempel, Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field you rise at dawn in May you can savour the world before the pandemonium din of the Industrial Revolution and 24/7 shopping. John Lewis-Stempel, Meadowland: the private life of an English field Almost all the things I love are to do with grass. Geese, sheep, cows, horses. Even dogs eat grass. John Lewis-Stempel, Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
Elegant, but simple, prose placing a meadow and its inhabitants into the wider history of the area. Good nature writing without being unduly technical or poetic. I really love good nature writing like this. Maybe you'd think nothing really happens in a meadow during a year that could ever fill a book - you'd be so wrong. Lewis Stempel is a farmer (with all the practicalities that role brings) and a nature lover. The two don't always go hand in hand. He fully admits that he has a 'spiritual connection'... Reading this book is an absolute joy - nearly as good as being there in real life! John Lewis-Stempel is a man with a wonderful understanding of the natural world and an obvious love and appreciation for the plants and animals on his farm. Meadowland is a truly calming and relaxing read - a great way to 'get away from it all', if only...
