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John lewisstempel is the author of the wild life, meadowland, where poppies blow, the running hare and the secret life of the owl. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over shop for meadowland. He was born in herefordshire, where his family have lived for over 700 years. The private life of an english field won the thwaites wainwright prize and was also shortlisted for bbc countryfile s country book of the year 2014.
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He is the only person to have won the wainwright prize for nature writing twice, with meadowland and where poppies blow. The private life of an english field, john lewisstempel charts a year in the life of a field on his farm on the herefordshire. A farmer, nature writer and historian, he has written extensively on the british military and the first world war. John lewisstempel born 1967 is an english farmer, writer, and sunday times top 5 best selling author. The short and gallant life of the british officer in the first world war. John lewisstempel knows not only all about the different kinds of life in such a place and how they all fit together, but can also write so vividly. The private life of an english field by john lewis. The private life of an english field is a monthbymonth account of the wild and domestic animal activity that takes place in the english countryside, a stones throw from wales, at the foot of the black mountains. It records the passage of the seasons from cowslips in spring to the haycutting of summer and. When teenage sisters go missing in the mysterious bennington triangle. In his previous book, meadowland, the writer and farmer john lewisstempel recounted a year in the life of an english meadow.
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