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John Lewis-Stempel is appearing at the Chipping Campden Literature Festival on Thursday 8th May 2025 (details here).

Pre-order your Festival copy and receive 10% discount.

Please indicate in the NOTES field on the check-out page if you would like us to deliver the book to the Festival event.

Alternatively we can post the book to you (cost £3.70) or it can be collected from the shop in advance of the event.

Published by Doubleday ISBN 9780857526472  Hardback

Original price was: £25.00.Current price is: £22.50.

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England’s landscape is iconic – a tapestry of distinctive habitats that together make up a country unique for its rich diversity of flora and fauna. Concentrating on twelve habitats, John Lewis-Stempel leads us from estuary to park, chalk downland to woodland , river to field, village to moor, lake to heath, fen to coastal cliffs, in a book that is unquestionably his magnum opus. Referencing beloved great writers in whose footsteps he treads – Gilbert White, John Clare, W.H. Hudson, Richard Jefferies, Edward Thomas – and combining breathtakingly beautiful prose with detailed wildlife observation, botanical fact and ancient folklore, Lewis-Stempel immerses himself in each place, discovering their singular atmosphere, the play of the seasons; the feel of the wind in midwinter; the sounds of daybreak; how twilight settles. Each one – whether managed park or wild moor, plunging cliff or man-made Broads – has also shaped human life, forming our idea of ourselves and our sense of what ‘England’ means.

England: A Natural History is the definitive volume on the English landscape, and the capstone of John Lewis-Stempel’s nature writing.