Meadowland The Private Life of an English Field

_________________'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. 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.

ISBN:	9780552778992
Publisher:	Transworld
Imprint:	Black Swan
Published date:	26 Mar 2015
DEWEY:	577.460942
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	293
Weight:	240g
Height:	196mm
Width:	128mm
Spine width:	20mm

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