The Natural History of Selborne (Penguin English Library)

Gilbert White,Richard Mabey

ISBN 10: 0140431128 / ISBN 13: 9780140431124

Verlag: Penguin Classics 26/05/1977, 1977

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Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Edited with an introduction by Richard Mabey

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Natural History of Selborne (Penguin ...
Verlag: Penguin Classics 26/05/1977
Erscheinungsdatum: 1977
Einband: Mass Market Paperback
Zustand: Very Good