(E–pub/Pdf) Meadowland The Private Life of an English Field By John Lewis–Stempel
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Free download Ñ Meadowland The Private Life of an English Field Æ PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free 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 warrenthe skylark brood and the curlew pair. This is a gorgeous homage to the traditional English meadow I was trying to read this book slowly and follow Lewis Stempel through his year on the Lower Meadow of his home in Herefordshire However I could only stretch it out two months because it s such a pleasure to read Lewis Stempel is a man of the land and a poet at heart He spends so much time walking the night meadow that I half expected him to turn into a werewolf by the end of the year I m a romantic at heart I learnt so much about English flora and fauna reading Meadowland
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Free download Ñ Meadowland The Private Life of an English Field Æ PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free What really goes on in the long grass Meadowland gives an uniue and intimate account of an English meadow’s life from January to December together with its biography In exuisite prose John Lewis Stempel records the passage of the seasons from. 45 John Clare found his poems in a field Sometimes I find words There is nothing like working land for growing and reaping lines of prose Lewis Stempel is a proper third generation Herefordshire farmer but also a naturalist with a poet s eye His day job might involve shooting rabbits cutting hay and delivering lambs but he still finds the time to notice and appreciate wildlife He knows his field s flowers insects and birds as well as he knows his cows he gets uiet and close enough to the ground to watch a shrew devouring beetlesAfter Robert Macfarlane s Landmarks this is my second favorite nature book read this year It s similar to a couple others I read but works much better For instance it s a rough chronological diary of a year in the meadow but unlike Mark Cocker s Claxton it doesn t keep slavishly to its schedule or read like a bunch of short entries pieced Tehanu cutting hay and delivering lambs but he still finds the time to notice and appreciate wildlife He knows his field s flowers insects and birds as well as he knows his A Tradition of Victory cows he gets uiet and Monstruos como nosotros Historias de freaks colosos y prodigios close enough to the ground to watch a shrew devouring beetlesAfter Robert Macfarlane s Landmarks this is my second favorite nature book read this year It s similar to a Drunken Fireworks couple others I read but works much better For instance it s a rough Angels Flight chronological diary of a year in the meadow but unlike Mark Cocker s Claxton it doesn t keep slavishly to its schedule or read like a bunch of short entries pieced
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Free download Ñ Meadowland The Private Life of an English Field Æ PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Among others Their births lives and deaths are stories that thread through the book from first page to lastIn Meadowland Lewis Stempel does for meadows what Roger Deakin did for woodland and rivers in his bestselling books Wildwood and Waterlo. If you want to read a book about a piece of land where the writer is truly in love with that piece of land then this is the book for you So many people will probably come across a meadow and see only a field so few are going to see things through the eyes of John Lewis Stempel His knowledge of all the types of animals flowers bugs and even grasses is incredible Whenever I read a nature book I try to remember one thing and then go and identify it in the wild this time around I am focusing on the awesome sounding Wolf Spider I get them in my garden and will now be able to identify them as I save my wife and eldest daughter from being eaten alive by one of themYou can t help but compare this book with Roger Deakin s Notes from Walnut Tree Farm and whilst they are a similar blend of nature musings poetry and life on the farm each author has such a strong voice they feel so different Deak