Woodston av John Lewis-Stempel

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<p><b>THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><br> ''Lewis-Stempel is one of our finest nature writers ... He writes with delicate observation and authority, giving us in Woodston a book teeming with fascinating details, anecdotes and penetrating insights into the real cost of our denatured countryside.'' - <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br> ''The English countryside is ''a work of human art, done by the many and the nameless'' and John Lewis-Stempel wanted to celebrate it. He has succeeded admirably.''<i> - Daily Mail</i><br><i>_________________</i><br><i>In the beginning was the earth...</i><br><br> From the Paleozoic volcanoes that stained its soil, to the Saxons who occupied it, to the Tudors who traded its wool, to the Land Girls of wartime, John Lewis-Stempel charts a sweeping, lyrical history of Woodston: the quintessential English farm.<br><br> With his combined skills of farmer and historian, Lewis-Stempel digs deep into written records, the memories of relatives, and the landscape