The Times and Irish Independent: BEST NATURE BOOKS OF THE YEARGreat nature writing needs to be informative,detailed,accurate,lyrical,and,above all,to instil a sense of gratitude and wonder. John Lewis-Stempel succeeds in all these things triumphantly. From amorous toads to the eye-popping mating habits of water boatmen,a magical celebration of pond life by one of our finest,most evocative nature writers.'Daily MailPonds: small bodies of water,both naturally formed and artificial,home to wondrous,multitudinous life-forms. Ponds define our childhood: frogspawn,goldfish,feeding the ducks,but also our village life,our farms,our landscape. And they are multi-layered - fromcarp circling the bottom to water boatmen,coot,and birds dragonflies overhead. In Still Water,John immerses himself in the murky depths,both literarily and figuratively,to explore the still waters of the British countryside through each month of the year.
Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdISBN: 9781784162429Number of pages: 304Weight: 209 gDimensions: 198 x 127 x 18 mm
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A beautifully written celebration of one of the natural world's most fertile founts of biodiversity and artistic inspiration...Acall to arms.The master of nature-writing takes readers through the changing life of a pond season by season.Great nature writing needs to be informative,detailed,accurate,lyrical,and,above all,to instil a sense of gratitude and wonder. John Lewis-Stempel succeeds in all these things triumphantly. From amorous toads to the eye-popping mating habits of water boatmen,a magical celebration of pond life by one of our finest,most evocative nature writers.One of England's most noted nature writers...Still Water is a scintillating mirror of ourselves.UK farmer and nature writer John Lewis-Stempel has won much acclaim for his perfectly observed reflections on pastoral habitats and their residents. Still Water explores "the deep life" of ponds with characteristic wit and beauty from the two-time Wainwright Prize winner.
John Lewis-Stempel
Widely recognised as one of Britain's finest natural history writers,John Lewis-Stempel is a farmer,journalist and writer whose works include The Wild Life,Meadowland,Where Poppies Grow,The Running Hare and The Secret Life of the Owl. He is a two-time winner of the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for Nature Writing.
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