The final book in the exquisite quartet from Britain's bestselling natural history writer - and 'finest living nature writer' The Times - explores a year in the life of a farm pond.
John Lewis-Stempel is a farmer and 'Britain's finest living nature writer' (The Times). His books include the Sunday Times bestsellers Woodston, The Running Hare and The Wood. He is the only person to have won the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing twice, with Meadowland and Where Poppies Blow. In 2016 he was named Magazine Columnist of the Year for his column in Country Life. He farms cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. Traditionally.
A beautifully written celebration of one of the natural world's
most fertile founts of biodiversity and artistic inspiration ... A
call to arms.
*BEST NATURE BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2019, The Times*
The master of nature-writing takes readers through the changing
life of a pond season by season.
*Radio Times*
Great nature writing needs to be informative, detailed, accurate,
lyrical, and, above all, to instil a sense of gratitude and wonder.
John Lewis-Stempel succeeds in all these things triumphantly. From
amorous toads to the eye-popping mating habits of water boatmen, a
magical celebration of pond life by one of our finest, most
evocative nature writers.
*Daily Mail*
One of England's most noted nature writers ... Still Water is a
scintillating mirror of ourselves.
*BOOK OF THE WEEK: The Lady*
UK farmer and nature writer John Lewis-Stempel has won much acclaim
for his perfectly observed reflections on pastoral habitats and
their residents. Still Water explores "the deep life" of ponds with
characteristic wit and beauty from the two-time Wainwright Prize
winner.
*Irish Independent*
Lewis-Stempel is a superb observer… he also has an original turn of
phrase; colourful, but not overwrought…by the end he has shown with
some flair that in the pond there are wondrous, multitudinous life
forms. And curious cruelties
*The Times*
Britain's finest living nature writer
*The Times*
Lewis-Stempel sees and hears things others will never see and hear,
and he can write about them as no one else can.
*Daily Mail: Summer Reads*
‘Lewis-Stempel vividly evokes a world of pond skaters and whirligig
beetles, and — the most astonishing — dragonflies. Like so much in
nature, the humble pond is a place for both simple pleasures and
profound reflections.'
*Daily Mail*
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