John Lewis-Stempel The Private Life of the Hare Hardback Book

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERSTo see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt . . . these are great things. Every field should have a hare. The hare, a night creature and countrydweller, is a rare sight for most people. We know them only from legends and stories. They are shapeshifters, witches familiars and symbols of fertility. They are arrogant, as in Aesops The Hare and the Tortoise, and absurd, as in Lewis Carrolls Mad March Hare. In the absence of observed facts, speculation and fantasy have flourished. But real hares? What are they like? In The Private Life of the Hare, John LewisStempel explores myths, history and the reality of the hare. And in vivid, elegant prose he celebrates how, in an age when television cameras have revealed so much in our landscape, the hare remains as elusive and magical as ever. | John Lewis-Stempel The Private Life of the Hare Hardback Book