England Signed Edition
A Natural History
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Publishing:3rd Oct '24
£25.00
This title is due to be published on 3rd October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£25.00(9780857526472)
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‘John Lewis-Stempel is the hottest nature writer around.’ – Spectator
‘His immense, patient powers of observation – along with a flair for the anthropomorphic – mean he is able to offer a portrait of animal life that's rare in its colour and drama.’ – Observer
‘That John Lewis-Stempel is one of the best nature writers of his generation is undisputed.’ – Country Life
‘I love the earthiness of John Lewis-Stempel's writing … The author has seen it, done it, sweated it, and has earned the right to write about it with straw-cut fingers and itchy palms. Brilliant stuff.’ – Christopher Somerville, walking correspondent for The Times
‘It’s his observation of the natural world – the sight, the sound, the smell of it – that is so memorable. He has a distinctively brisk, muscular style of writing that has a poetic intensity and concision. – Guardian
‘Lewis-Stempel sees and hears things others will never see and hear, and he can write about them as no one else can.’– DailyMail
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Our countryside is iconic: a series of distinctive habitats that unite to create a landscape that is unique for the rich diversity of our flora and fauna. In England, his most magisterial book to date, John Lewis-Stempel explores each in turn, taking us from coast to moor, from downs to field, from the park to the village to create a vivid living portrait of our natural history.
In his trademark lyrical prose, Lewis-Stempel reveals the hidden workings of each habitat: the clear waters and dragonflies; the bluebells, badgers and stag beetles; wild thyme; granite cliffs; rock pools and sandy beaches; red deer standing at ancient oaks; the wayside flowers of the lane; hedgehogs and hares; and snow on the high peak. Each landscape - be it calm green or wild moor, plunging cliff or flatland fen - has shaped our idea of ourselves, our sense of what it is to be in England.
In a stunning package, complete with decorated boards, endpapers, chapterheads and a map, England: A Natural History is the definitive volume on the English landscape and the capstone of John Lewis-Stempel's nature writing.
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
Lewis-Stempel is the most splendid company as he stomps and meanders through England. He's congenial, lyrical, unsentimental and smart, with a rare eye both for the big picture and the tiny, telling detail. Marvellous! -- Charles Foster, author of Cry of the Wild
The book I've been waiting for, by my favourite contemporary nature writer. John Lewis-Stempel is that rarest of breeds, a writer on nature who is fully immersed in the natural world. England is a treasure from start to finish. -- Tristan Gooley
No other writer comes close to Stempel’s mixture of down-to-earth practical observation, playful lyricism, and sheer delight in the endless variety of our English countryside. -- Christopher Somerville, author of Ships of Heaven and Walking the Bones of Britain
With charm, patient observation and the gift of beautiful words, John Lewis-Stempel braids history, science and folklore, revealing how English habitats have been formed by the interplay of nature and the human hand. England is a loving call to experience afresh the worlds-within-worlds on our doorstep. -- [Prof.] Jonathan Drori [CBE] Author of Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World in 80 Plants
ISBN: 9780857526472-S
Dimensions: 240mm x 156mm x 40mm
Weight: 750g
464 pages