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England : The autobiography by John Lewis-Stempel
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
Oral history.
England, the Autobiography: 2,000 Years of English History by Those Who Saw it Happen by John Lewis-Stempel
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Fountainhead of democracy, engine of the Industrial Revolution, epicentre of the globe's greatest empire, and the first-ditch stand against an expansionist Germany in two world wars: England's history is among the most fascinating and influential the world has ever known. This volume presents that histo ...Show more
Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field by John Lewis-Stempel
$55.00 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow's life from January to December, together with its biography. In exquisite prose, John Lewis-Stempel records the passage of the seasons from cowslips in spring to the hay-cutting of summer and gra ...Show more
The Secret Life of the Owl by John Lewis-Stempel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
'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
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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