The Natural History of Selborne
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- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
11 November 2013
Summary
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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199591961 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199591962 |
| Author: | Gilbert White, Anne Secord |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 11 November 2013 |
| Weight: | 415g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 135mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
This Oxford edition offers new insights into a work that has been hugely popular.
I can wholeheartedly recommend this edition … Beautifully produced … Secords 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 *
Any book that delighted both Virginia Woolf and Charles Darwin is a must-read, in my opinion. But this little gem of a book is also beautifully produced and has some added useful context. * GrrlScientist, Guardian *
A natural history must-read in a new edition. * New Scientist *
This Oxford edition offers new insights into a work that has been hugely popular. * Land and Business *
This comfortable pocket edition of the classic work … is a delight to handle and read. This will certainly be one of my future travelling companions. * Biological Journal of the Linnean Society *
Gilbert White
Gilbert White was born in 1720 in Selborne, Hampshire. He attended Oriel College, Oxford, and became a Fellow there in 1743. After being ordained, he held several curacies near Selborne before becoming the permanent curate of his birthplace in 1784, a position he maintained until his death in 1793.
In 1751, White began keeping his ‘Garden Kalendar,’ followed by the ‘Naturalist’s Journal,’ which he maintained for 25 years. His most famous work, The Natural History of Selborne, is based on his correspondence with naturalists Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington.
Anne Secord is an Affiliated Research Scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Her research and writing focus on popular natural history in nineteenth-century Britain, as well as horticulture, medicine, and consumption in the eighteenth century. She is currently completing a book on social class, observation, and skill in nineteenth-century natural history for the University of Chicago Press.
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