John Lewis-Stempel Night Life : Walking Britain's wild landscapes after dark Hardback

Walk through Britains wild landscapes after dark with twotime winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, John LewisStempel. Britains finest living nature writerThe TimesAt night the senses become reordered. Hearing, touch, smell are privileged over vision. It is after dark that we humans become more sensitive to nature, more animal. But the lights of the modern world are obliterating any meaningful connection to the night. We have lost touch with its wonders as well as its terrors. In this enchanting followup to Nightwalking, John LewisStempel once again ventures out into the night to discover the natural world after dark, its rarely seen spectacles and curiosities. There are hares boxing under stars, night jars hunting moths in the summer wood, wintry moons with halos, rockpool creatures glowing neon under UV light, barley fields shimmering in moonshine ...In Night Life, LewisStempel wanders his familiar farmland, and goes further afield too, exploring the Lake District, the Welsh coast, Londons Thames. Everywhere, he shows us why the night is precious, and what it is to be human in the dark. | John Lewis-Stempel Night Life : Walking Britain's wild landscapes after dark Hardback