What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate a
ccount of an English meadow's life from January to December, together with its b
iography. In exquisite prose, John Lewis-Stempel records the passage of the seas
ons from cowslips in spring to the hay-cutting of summer and grazing in autumn,
and includes the biographies of the animals that inhabit the grass and the soil
beneath: the badger clan, the fox family, the rabbit warren,the skylark brood an
d the curlew pair, among others. Their births, lives, and deaths are stories tha
t thread through the book from first page to last.
