The Natural History of Selborne
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- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2016
Summary
‘I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person’s hand.’
The Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years, Gilbert 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 pur…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198737759 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198737750 |
| Author: | Gilbert White, Anne Secord |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 142mm x 195mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Critics Review
'I can wholeheartedly recommend this edition ... Beautifully produced ... Secord's introduction - surely one of the chief reasons to purchase this new edition of a book never out of print - provides a nuanced and stimulating account of the origins, character, and legacies of Selborne.''Diarmid A. Finnegan, Journal of Historical Geography‘This Oxford edition offers new insights into a work that has been hugely popular. “Land and Business
Gilbert White
Gilbert White was born in 1720 in Selborne in Hampshire and went to Oriel College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow in 1743. He took ordination and held a number of curacies in the vicinity of Selborne before finally becoming permanent curate of his birthplace in 1784, a position he held until his death in 1793. In 1751 he started keeping his ‘Garden Kalendar’, and later the ‘Naturalist’s Journal’ he kept for 25 years. The Natural History of Selborne is based on his correspondence with two distinguished naturalists, Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington.
Anne Secord is an Affiliated Research Scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. The focus of her research and writing is on popular natural history in nineteenth-century Britain, and on horticulture, medicine, and consumption in the eighteenth century. She is completing a book that explores social class, observation, and skill in nineteenth-century natural history.
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