The Private Life of the Hare

Informationen zum Autor John Lewis-Stempel Klappentext The third in Lewis-Stempel's series of books about iconic presences that feature in the English landscape. Explores the hare's elusive and majestic appeal to popular imagination. Zusammenfassung THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS ‘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 shape-shifters, witches’ familiars and symbols of fertility. They are arrogant, as in Aesop’s The Hare and the Tortoise , and absurd, as in Lewis Carroll’s Mad March Hare. In the absence of observed facts, speculation and fantasy have flourished. But real hares? What are they like? In The Private Life of the Hare , John Lewis-Stempel explores myths, history and the reality of the hare. And in vivid, elegant prose he celebrates how, in an age when television cameras have revealed so much in our landscape, the hare remains as elusive and magical as ever.

Product details

• Authors: John Lewis-Stempel
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780857524553
• ISBN: 978-0-85752-455-3
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 206 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; SCIENCE / Natural History, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Wilderness, Conservation of wildlife & habitats, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Conservation of wildlife and habitats