Still Water av John Lewis-Stempel

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<p><b><i>The Times </i>and<i> Irish Independent: </i>BEST NATURE BOOKS OF THE YEAR</b><br><b><br>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.'' <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br>Ponds: small bodies of water, both naturally formed and artificial, home to wondrous, multitudinous life-forms. Ponds define our childhood: frogspawn, goldfish, feeding the ducks, but also our village life, our farms, our landscape. And they are multi-layered - from carp circling the bottom to water boatmen, coot, and birds dragonflies overhead. In <i>Still Water, </i>John immerses himself in the murky depths, both literarily and figuratively, to explore the still waters of the British countryside through each mo