The Running Hare : The Secret Life of Farmland (Paperback / Softback)John Lewis-Stempel

  • Paperback / Softback
  • 304 Pages / Published 20 Apr 2017
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__________________’BRITAIN’S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER’ – THE TIMESThe Sunday Times Bestseller – SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List.

The corncrake is all but extinct in England. And the hare is running for its life. Written in exquisite prose, The Running Hare tells the story of the wild animals and plants that live in and under our ploughland, from the labouring microbes to the patrolling kestrel above the corn, from the linnet pecking at seeds to the seven-spot ladybird that eats the aphids that eat the crop.

It recalls an era before open-roofed factories and silent, empty fields, recording the ongoing destruction of the unique, fragile, glorious ploughland that exists just down the village lane. But it is also the story of ploughland through the eyes of man who took on a field and husbanded it in a natural, traditional way, restoring its fertility and wildlife, bringing back the old farmland flowers and animals. John Lewis Stempel demonstrates that it is still possible to create a place where the hare can rest safe.

Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society White Horse Bookshop Prize 2016. John Lewis-Stempel was winner of the Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015 for MEADOWLAND.

Additional information

Weight 242 g
Dimensions 197 × 19 mm
ISBN-13

9781784160746

Publisher

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Imprint

Black Swan

Date of Publication

20 Apr 2017

By (author)

John Lewis-Stempel

Pages

304

Format

Paperback / softback

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