John Lewis-Stempel Forfatter
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Still Water: The Deep Life of the Pond (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Times and Irish Independent: BEST NATURE BOOKS OF THE YEARGreat nature writing needs to be informative, detailed, accurate, lyrical, and, above all, to instil a sense of gratitude and wonder.
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The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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... Læs mere
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The Private Life of the Hare (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
THE PERFECT GIFT 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.
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Meadowland: the private life of an English field (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
_________________'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMESWINNER 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.
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The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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... Læs mere
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The Glorious Life of the Oak (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
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.
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A Brief History of the British Army (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A very readable history of the British Army that manages to be objective yet sympathetic, and concise while never being superficial
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The Wild Life of the Fox (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
To love and loathe the fox is a British condition."The fox is our apex predator, our most beautiful and clever killer.
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The Wild Life: A Year of Living on Wild Food (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Wild Life is John Lewis-Stempel's account of twelve months eating only food shot, caught or foraged from the fields, hedges, and brooks of his forty-acre farm.
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The War Behind the Wire: The Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War, 1914-18 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy.
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Six Weeks: The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The extraordinary story of British junior officers in the First World War, who led their men out of the trenches and faced a life expectancy of six weeks.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
