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The natural history and antiquities of Selborne, in the county of Southhampton (Volume I)

The natural history and antiquities of Selborne, in the county of Southhampton (Volume I)

White, Gilbert

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral World HistoryNature Writing

ISBN10: 935370992X
ISBN13: 9789353709921
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 580
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.29 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Step into Selborne, where weather, wings, and human habit are all worth noticing. Listen closely to the hedgerow. In Volume I of The natural history and antiquities of Selborne, in the county of Southhampton, Gilbert White shapes classic nature writing from natural history letters and epistolary nonfiction essays addressed to fellow scholars. Written from a village parsonage, the letters move between careful field-notes and warm local portraiture, without losing precision in each season's turn. His eye stays on english birds and wildlife - swallows, owls, field mice - but also on the daily patterns that make countryside ecology observations feel immediate: soils, seasons, farming practice, and the small disruptions that signal change. Alongside birdwatching and nature study, he records rural antiquities and folklore, anchoring the living landscape in memory and custom across the hampshire selborne countryside. First published in eighteenth century england, White's Selborne helped define how Britain would read its own fields and skies, and it remains a touchstone in ornithology classics collection history and in the wider story of environmental attention. Readers coming for calm, exact observation will find pages that reward slow reading; collectors and students will recognise a british literature classroom text whose influence runs through later nature writers. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. A complete unabridged nature classic, ready for the shelf and the next walk.

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