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Still Water - The Deep Life of the Pond (Hardcover)
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Still Water - The Deep Life of the Pond (Hardcover)
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List price R464
Loot Price R396
Discovery Miles 3 960
You Save R68 (15%)
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______________ BEST BOOKS FOR NATURE LOVERS 2019 - Daily Mail BEST
NATURE BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2019 - The Times and Irish Independent 'A
beautifully written celebration of one of the natural world's most
fertile founts of biodiversity and artistic inspiration ... A call
to arms.' - The Times The Pond. Nothing in the countryside is more
humble or more valuable. It's the moorhen's reedy home, the frog's
ancient breeding place, the kill zone of the beautiful dragonfly.
More than a hundred rare and threatened fauna and flora depend on
it. Written in gorgeous prose, Still Water tells the seasonal story
of the wild animals and plants that live in and around the pond,
from the mayfly larvae in the mud to the patrolling bats in the
night sky above. It reflects an era before the water was polluted
with chemicals and the land built on for housing, a time when ponds
shone everywhere like eyes in the land, sustaining life for all,
from fish to carthorse. Still Water is a loving biography of the
pond, and an alarm call on behalf of this precious but overlooked
habitat. Above all, John Lewis-Stempel takes us on a remarkable
journey - deep, deep down into the nature of still water.
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