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The Wood: John Lewis-Stempel
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John Lewis-Stempel, the award-winning and bestselling author of Meadowland and The Running Hare introduces his new book, The Wood.
For four years John Lewis-Stempel managed Cockshutt, three and half acres of mixed woodland in south west Herefordshire . He coppiced the trees and raised cows and pigs who roamed free there. The book is a diary of the last year, by which time he had come to know it from the bottom of its beech roots to the tip of its oaks, and to know all the animals that lived there – the fox, the pheasants, the wood mice, the tawny owl – and where the best bluebells grew.
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