The hare, a night creature and country-dweller, is a rare sight for most people. Most of us know them only from legends and stories as shape-shifters, witches’ familiars, symbols of fertility, and second-finishers to tortoises. In vivid, elegant prose John Lewis-Stempel celebrates how, in an age when television cameras have revealed so much in our landscape, the hare remains as elusive and magical as ever.

• Author: Lewis-Stempel, John

• Publisher: Transworld

• Format: Hardback