England
A Natural History
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Product details:
- Publisher Doubleday
- Date of Publication 3 October 2024
- ISBN 9780857526472
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 242x162x40 mm
- Weight 691 g
- Language English
- Illustrations b/w line illustrations and map 659
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Long description:
England?s landscape is iconic ? a tapestry of distinctive habitats that together make up a country unique for its rich diversity of flora and fauna. Concentrating on twelve habitats, John Lewis-Stempel leads us from estuary to park, chalk downland to woodland , river to field, village to moor, lake to heath, fen to coastal cliffs, in a book that is unquestionably his magnum opus.
Referencing beloved great writers in whose footsteps he treads ? Gilbert White, John Clare, W. H. Hudson, Richard Jefferies, Edward Thomas ? and combining breathtakingly beautiful prose with detailed wildlife observation, botanical fact and ancient folklore, Lewis-Stempel immerses himself in each place, discovering their singular atmosphere, the play of the seasons; the feel of the wind in midwinter; the sounds of daybreak; how twilight settles. Each one ? whether managed park or wild moor, plunging cliff or man-made Broads ? has also shaped human life, forming our idea of ourselves and our sense of what ?England? means.
England: A Natural History is the definitive volume on the English landscape, and the capstone of John Lewis-Stempel?s nature writing.
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?No-one comes close to Lewis-Stempel?s ability to paint the English landscape in words. Maddeningly brilliant.? - Sally Coulthard, author of A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects
