From the author of }The Running Hare{, }Meadowland{ and }The Secret Life Of The Owl{. This is the story of an English wood across the changing seasons. Over four years, Lewis-Stempel managed three and a half acres of mixed woodland in Hertfordshire, and this is the diary of the final year Lyrical and informative, steeped in poetry and folklore, The Wood inhabits the mind and touches the soul. For four years John Lewis-Stempel managed Cockshutt wood, a particular wood - three and half acres of mixed woodland in south west Herefordshire - that stands as exemplar for all the small woods of England.
