To 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 country-dweller, is a rare sight for most people. We
know them only from legends and stories.
They are
shape-shifters, witches' familiars and symbols of fertility. They are
arrogant, as in Aesop's The Hare and the Tortoise, and absurd, as in
Lewis Carroll's 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 Lewis-Stempel
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.
The Private Life of the Hare - John Lewis-Stempel
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