The Natural History Of Selborne (Everyman)

by Gilbert White (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $4.03

  This book is part of the Everyman series, which has been totally re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type. It includes an introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author and a selection of criticism. Loved by generations for its detailed and unpretentious account of nature's minute particulars , this book captures the essence of daily life in an 18th-century Hampshire parish. Gilbert's knowledge and strong affection for his surroundings emerge from the text.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.28

• New

  Paperback
  1977

  $10.88

  More than any other writer, Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before Darwin, White realised the crucial role of worms in the formation of soil and understood the significance of territory and song in birds. His precise, scrupulously honest and unaffectedly witty observations led him to interpret animals' behaviour in a unique manner. This collection of his letters to the explorer and naturalist Daines Barrington and the eminent zoologist Thomas Pennant - White's intellectual lifelines from his country-village home - are a beautifully written, detailed evocation of the lives of the flora and fauna of eighteenth-century England.