From Gina Langford, Canterbury, Kent, UK
I liked James McConnachie’s review of England: A natural history by John Lewis-Stempel, and feel he gave the author a fair hearing, but would add more praise (5 October, p 28).
I have read several of Lewis-Stempel’s offerings. He may do his work alone, as you point out, but he has the power to make me understand crucial aspects of nature, for example, the importance of fertility in the soil in his 2016 book The Running Hare: The secret life of farmland.
