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Brief History Of The British Army by Jock Haswell, John Lewis-Stempel
Category: Military | Series: Brief Histories
The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken disorder. It involves many of the most vital preoccupations in the history of the island - the struggle against Continental domination by a single power, the batt ...Show more
England, the Autobiography: 2,000 Years of English History by Those Who Saw it Happen by John Lewis-Stempel
Category: Non-Fiction
Fountainhead of democracy, engine of the Industrial Revolution, epicentre of the globe's greatest empire, and the first-ditch stand against an expansionist Germany in two world wars: England's history is among the most fascinating and influential the world has ever known. This volume presents that histo ...Show more
Glorious Life of the Oak by John Lewis-Stempel
Category: Nature
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. More ...Show more
La Vie by John Lewis-Stempel
Category: Travel
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 ...Show more
Meadowland The Private Life of an English Field by John Lewis-Stempel
Category: Nature
WINNER 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 ...Show more
Still Water by John Lewis-Stempel
Category: Nature
The Pond. Nothing in the countryside is more humble or more valuable. It's the moorhen's reedy home, the frog's ancient breeding place, the kill zone of the beautiful dragonfly. More than a hundred rare and threatened fauna and flora depend on it. Written in gorgeous prose, Still Water tells the seasona ...Show more
Still Water - The Deep Life of the Pond by John Lewis-Stempel
Category: Non-Fiction
______________BEST BOOKS FOR NATURE LOVERS 2019 - Daily MailBEST NATURE BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2019 - The Times and Irish Independent'A beautifully written celebration of one of the natural world's most fertile founts of biodiversity and artistic inspiration ... A call to arms.' - The TimesThe Pond. Nothing ...Show more
The Private Life of the Hare by John Lewis-Stempel
Category: Nature
'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. They are ...Show more
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel
Category: Nature
This is from the Winner of the Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015. 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 r ...Show more
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel
Category: Nature
The Sunday Times Bestseller - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 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 ...Show more
The Secret Life of the Owl by John Lewis-Stempel
Category: Nature
'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. T ...Show more
The Sheep's Tale - The Story of Our Most Misunderstood Farmyard Animal by John Lewis-Stempel
Category: Non-Fiction
A warm and personal biography of the sheep by one of our most celebrated nature writers.Everybody thinks they know everything about sheep, because there is nothing to know. They are stupid, noisy, cowardly ('lambs to the slaughter'), and they're 'sheepwrecking' the environment.Or maybe not. Contrary to ...Show more