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Jenny Uglow

A Year with Gilbert White : The First Great Nature Writer Hardback...

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At a Glance
Glimpse into pioneering naturalist
Celebrated biographer's vivid insights
Hardcover tome, 472 pages
Window into 18th century
From renowned Faber publisher
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Uglow makes us feel the life beyond the facts. GUARDIANFew can match Uglows skill at conjuring up a scene, or illuminating a character. SUNDAY TIMESCharming . . . Like Radio 4s shipping forecast for naturalists. Andrea Wulf, FINANCIAL TIMESA glorious celebration of curiosity and nature. OBSERVERA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, THE SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER AND NEW STATESMANIn 1781, Gilbert White was a country curate, living in the Hampshire village he had known all his life. Fascinated by the fauna, flora and people around him, he kept journals for many years, and, at that time, was halfway to completing his pathbreaking The Natural History of Selborne. No one had written like this before, with such close observation, humour, and sympathy his spellbinding book has remained in print ever since, treasured by generations of readers. Jenny Uglow illuminates this quirky, warmhearted man, the father of ecology, by following a single year in his Naturalists Journal. As his diary jumps from topic to topic, she accompanies Gilbert from frost to summer drought, from the migration of birds to the sex lives of snails and the coming of harvest.Fresh, alive and original and packed with rich colour illustrations A Year with Gilbert White invites us to see the natural world anew, with astonishment and wonder.A feast of a book, it is beautifully illustrated and compulsively readable.LITERARY REVIEWThe author brings her subject endearingly alive . . . [an] enriching book. NATURE

SKU: M9780571354184
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Binding: Hardback;416 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: AC; Weight: 1048 g; Dimensions: 166 x 242 x 116

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