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Lewis-Stempel J.


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The Sheep’s Tale. The story of our most misunderstood farmyard animal Lewis-Stempel J.
The Sheep’s Tale. The story of our most misunderstood farmyard animal
Everybody thinks they know what sheep are like: they\"re stupid, noisy, cowardly (\"lambs to the slaughter\"), and they\"re \"sheepwrecking\" the environment. Or maybe not. Contrary to popular prejudice, sheep are among the smartest animals in the farmyard, fiercely loyal, forming long and lasting friendships....
1808 руб.
La Vie. A year in rural France Lewis-Stempel J.
La Vie. A year in rural France
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 of rolling, glorious countryside....
3075 руб.
The Wood. The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood Lewis-Stempel J.
The Wood. The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood
Written in diary format, The Wood is the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons. Lyrical and informative, steeped in poetry and folklore, The Wood inhabits the mind and touches the soul....
1744 руб.
Still Water. The Deep Life of the Pond Lewis-Stempel J.
Still Water. The Deep Life of the Pond
Great nature writing needs to be informative, detailed, accurate, lyrical, and, above all, to instil a sense of gratitude and wonder. John Lewis-Stempel succeeds in all these things triumphantly....
1989 руб.
The Wild Life. A Year of Living on Wild Food Lewis-Stempel J.
The Wild Life. A Year of Living on Wild Food
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. Nothing from a shop and nothing raised from agriculture. Could it even be done?...
1834 руб.
The Running Hare. The Secret Life of Farmland Lewis-Stempel J.
The Running Hare. The Secret Life of Farmland
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 hare is running for its life....
1834 руб.
Nightwalking. Four Journeys into Britain After Dark Lewis-Stempel J.
Nightwalking. Four Journeys into Britain After Dark
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 owl echoed off the bare trees....
1743 руб.
The Sheep’s Tale. The story of our most misunderstood farmyard animal Lewis-Stempel J.
The Sheep’s Tale. The story of our most misunderstood farmyard animal
I look at the Ryeland ewes, white and fat with fecundity. Replete with contentment. Contentment is a transmissible condition. I catch it off the sheep. The old time shepherds used to sleep with their sheep, out in the fields. I do it sometimes too, on the dry nights, the sheep lying down around me....
2386 руб.
The Wild Life of the Fox Lewis-Stempel J.
The Wild Life of the Fox
\\\"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 scream....
1836 руб.
The Glorious Life of the Oak Lewis-Stempel J.
The Glorious Life of the Oak
\"The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth. It is the lynch pin of the British landscape.\" The oak is our most beloved and most common tree. It has roots that stretch back to all the old European cultures but Britain has more ancient oaks than all the other European countries put together....
1989 руб.
The Soaring Life of the Lark Lewis-Stempel J.
The Soaring Life of the Lark
\\\"How to describe the ecstatic song of larks? How the writers and poets have tried...\\\" Skylarks are the heralds of our countryside. Their music is the quintessential sound of spring. The spirit of English pastoralism, they inspire poets, composers and farmers alike....
1836 руб.
Woodston. The Biography of An English Farm Lewis-Stempel J.
Woodston. The Biography of An English Farm
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....
3675 руб.
The Secret Life of the Owl Lewis-Stempel J.
The Secret Life of the Owl
\"Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light. Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started calling, Hoo-hoo-hoo-h-o-o-o.\" There is something about owls. They feature in every major culture from the Stone Age onwards. They are creatures of the night, and thus of magic....
2020 руб.
The Private Life of the Hare Lewis-Stempel J.
The Private Life of the Hare
‘To see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt . . . these are great things. Every field should have a hare.’ The hare, a night creature and country-dweller, is a rare sight for most people. We know them only from legends and stories....
2020 руб.
Meadowland. The private life of an English field Lewis-Stempel J.
Meadowland. The private life of an English field
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....
2020 руб.
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