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The Natural History of Selborne

Nature Classics Library

By (author) Gilbert White
Illustrated by Eric Ravilious
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Little Toller Books, Wimborne Minster, United Kingdom
Published: 12th Nov 2014
Dimensions: w 161mm h 211mm d 31mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN-10: 1908213256
ISBN-13: 9781908213259
Barcode No: 9781908213259
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Synopsis
A century before Charles Darwin, decades before the French Revolution, Gilbert White began his lifelong habit of measuring and observing the world around his Hampshire home. Daily rainfall levels and temperature shifts were recorded with home-made instruments. Bird song and seasonal migrations were noted. The feeding habits of frogs, bats and mice were jotted into his diaries and nature journals, as were the simple delights he felt hearing a cricket in the meadow or a blackbird in the hedgerows. The extraordinary detail of the natural history he described has given us, two hundred years later, a glimpse into ecosystems untouched by industry and an account of how changes in global climate can affect local weather patterns. Gilbert White is now considered England's first ecologist. The Natural History of Selborne is one the most published books in the English language. Yet the most enduring quality of his writing is the spirit of curiosity that bounds across every page, inspiring us to explore the abundance of life at our doorsteps and around our parishes.

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