The Natural History of Selbornee-artnow, 2020 M12 18 - 355 pages This book is a compilation of the author's letters to other naturalists – Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington. Some of the letters were never posted, and were written for the book. White's Natural History was at once well received by contemporary critics and the public, and continued to be admired by a diverse range of nineteenth and twentieth century literary figures. His work has been seen as an early contribution to ecology and in particular to phenology. The book has been enjoyed for its charm and apparent simplicity, and the way that it creates a vision of pre-industrial England. |
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... leave us before the middle of August invariably! while the latter stay often till the middle of October; and once I saw numbers of house-martins on the 7th November. The martins and red-wing fieldfares were flying in sight together, an ...
... leave us before the middle of August invariably! while the latter stay often till the middle of October; and once I saw numbers of house-martins on the 7th November. The martins and red-wing fieldfares were flying in sight together, an ...
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... leave this county in the winter. In January, 1767, I saw several dozen of them, in the midst of a severe frost, among the bushes on the downs near Andover: in our woodland-enclosed district it is a rare bird. Wagtails, both white and ...
... leave this county in the winter. In January, 1767, I saw several dozen of them, in the midst of a severe frost, among the bushes on the downs near Andover: in our woodland-enclosed district it is a rare bird. Wagtails, both white and ...
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... leave us at that season may find insects sufficient to support them there. Some young man, possessed of fortune, health, and leisure, should make an autumnal voyage into that kingdom, and should spend a year there, investigating the ...
... leave us at that season may find insects sufficient to support them there. Some young man, possessed of fortune, health, and leisure, should make an autumnal voyage into that kingdom, and should spend a year there, investigating the ...
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... leave him (if they do leave him), and when they return again in the spring: I was with this gentleman lately, and saw several single birds. LETTER XXI. Table of Contents prove to SELBORNE , Nov.
... leave him (if they do leave him), and when they return again in the spring: I was with this gentleman lately, and saw several single birds. LETTER XXI. Table of Contents prove to SELBORNE , Nov.
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... leave this island in the winter. You judge very right, I think, in speaking with reserve and caution concerning the cures done by toads; for, let people advance what they will on such subjects, yet there is such a propensity in mankind ...
... leave this island in the winter. You judge very right, I think, in speaking with reserve and caution concerning the cures done by toads; for, let people advance what they will on such subjects, yet there is such a propensity in mankind ...
Contents
LETTER XXIII | |
LETTER XXIV | |
TO THOMAS PENNANT ESQUIRE | |
LETTER XXV | |
LETTER XXVI | |
LETTER XXVII | |
Table of Contents | |
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