GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS. "To see a hare sitting still like a stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare's escape... these are great moments. Every field should have a hare." The hare, a nocturnal creature and a countryside resident, is a rare sight for most people. We know them only from legends and stories. They are shape-shifters, familiar to witches, and symbols of fertility. They are arrogant, as in Aesop's fable "The Hare and the Tortoise," and absurd, as in Lewis Carroll's "The Mad March Hare." In the absence of observed facts, speculation and imagination have flourished. But the real hares? What are they like? In "The Private Life of the Hare," John Lewis-Stempel explores the myths, history, and reality of the hare. And in vivid, elegant prose, he celebrates how, in an age where television cameras have revealed so many landscapes, the hare remains as elusive and magical as possible.

Pages: 112, Dimensions: 13x13cm