The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White (HQ48)

Published 1941: First Penguin Books Edition / Softcover / Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original pictorial stiff card covers. 256 clean slightly age-toned pages, speckled edges. Slight shelf wear on covers and slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. (HQ48)

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Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He notes everything from the habits of an eccentric tortoise to the mysteries of bird migration and animal reproduction, with the purpose of inspiring others to observe their own surroundings with the same pleasure and attention.

Written as a series of letters, White's book has all the immediacy and freshness of an exchange with friends, yet it is none the less crafted with compelling literary skill. His gossipy correspondence has delighted readers from Charles Darwin to Virginia Woolf, and it has been read as a nostalgic evocation of a pastoral vision, a model for local studies of plants and animals, and a precursor to modern ecology.

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