Meadowland The private life of an English field

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 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.

About the author

John Lewis-Stempel is a farmer and 'Britain's finest living nature writer' (The Times). His books include the Sunday Times bestsellers Woodston, The Running Hare and The Wood, and most recently he published England: A Natural History. He is the only person to have won the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing twice, with Meadowland and Where Poppies Blow. In 2016 he was named Magazine Columnist of the Year for his column in Country Life. He farms cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. Traditionally.

Product details

• Authors: John Lewis Stempel, John Lewis-Stempel, Lewis-Stempel John
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.04.2015
• Subject: Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780552778992
• ISBN: 978-0-552-77899-2
• Pages: 304
• Dimensions (packing): 12.7 x 19.8 x 1.9 cm
• Subjects: Photography, Gardens, Gardening, NATURE / General, Nature, NATURE / Ecology, Birds, Outdoors, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Wilderness, NATURE / Seasons, natural history, The countryside, country life: general interest, Plant, The countryside, country life, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, the sunday times books, nature books, Piers Plowman, plant book, a life lost, book russell brand, christopher somerville, the lost words robert macfarlane, peter wohlleben the hidden life of trees