The Running Hare. The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel - 2017

London England: Black Swan. Very Good. 2017. Reprint. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 9781784160746 Paperback Paperback. The Running Hare. Tiny crease to corner front cover. Twice Winner of the Wainwright Prize. This book is natural history close up and intimate. It is the closely observed study of the plants and animals that live in and under plough land, from the labouring microbes to the patrolling kestrel above the corn, of field mice in nests woven to crop stems, and the hare now running for his life. It is a history of the field, which is really the story of our landscape and of us, a people for whom the plough has informed every part of life: our language and religion, our holidays and our food. And it is the story of a field, once moribund and now transformed. 301 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .