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Glorious Life of the Oak by John Lewis-Stempel
19.99 AUD
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants
The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth. It is the lynch pin of the British landscape.' The oak is our most beloved and most common tree. It has roots that stretch back to all the old European cultures but Britain has more ancient oaks than all the other European countries put together. More ...Show more
Still Water by John Lewis-Stempel
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
The Pond. Nothing in the countryside is more humble or more valuable. It's the moorhen's reedy home, the frog's ancient breeding place, the kill zone of the beautiful dragonfly. More than a hundred rare and threatened fauna and flora depend on it. Written in gorgeous prose, Still Water tells the seasona ...Show more
The Secret Life of the Owl by John Lewis-Stempel
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
'Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light. Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started calling, Hoo-hoo-hoo-h-o-o-o.' There is something about owls. They feature in every major culture from the Stone Age onwards. They are creatures of the night, and thus of magic. T ...Show more
The War Behind the Wire: The Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War, 1914-18 by John Lewis-Stempel
45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the truth. British Prisoners of War merely exchanged one barbed-wire battleground for another. In the camps the war was eternal. There was the war against the German military, ...Show more
The Wood by John Lewis-Stempel
19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' from 'indisputably, one of the best nature-writers of his generation' (Country Life)Written in diary format, The Woodis the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons. Lyrical and informative, steeped in poetry and folklore, Th ...Show more
Where Poppies Blow by John Lewis-Stempel
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it weren't for the birds, what a hell it would be.'During the Great War, soldiers lived inside the ground, closer to nature than many humans had lived for centuri ...Show more
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