Nightwalking – Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark John Lewis-Stempel, Doubleday, 2022, hb, 104pps, £9.99 John Lewis-Stempel is nearly as prolific as the natural world about which he writes so famously, and so well. His voice is welcomely distinctive – a traditional agriculturist of lyrical articulacy, an observant ecologist who finds mythopoeic magic in everyday… Continue reading
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A paean to pasture – a review of Meadowland by John Lewis-Stempel
A PAEAN TO PASTURE Meadowland – The Private Life of an English Field John Lewis-Stempel, London: Doubleday, 2014, hb., 294pps To a town-dweller in transit to another town, or looked down on lazily from a plane, the English countryside can still look green and biodiverse. It would be easy and pleasant to assume that whatever… Continue reading