A Year with Gilbert White
the first great nature writer
$50.58
- Hardcover
472 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2026
Summary
A Year with Gilbert White: Discovering Nature’s Wonder
‘Uglow makes us feel the life beyond the facts.’- Guardian
‘Few can match Uglow’s skill at conjuring up a scene, or illuminating a character.’- Sunday Times
‘Uglow’s style is supremely elegant and often amusingly bathetic, her research exhaustive but lightly worn.’- Financial Times
In 1781, Gilbert White was a country curate in the Hampshire village he ha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571354184 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0571354181 |
| Author: | Jenny Uglow |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 472 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 1.05kg |
| Dimensions: | 42mm x 242mm x 255mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘Whatever Uglow writes about she makes absolutely fascinating.’ - Diana Athill‘Jenny Uglow is a uniquely gifted historian. Her style is supremely elegant and often amusingly bathetic, her researches exhaustive but lightly worn… No page is without its intriguing anecdote.’ - Financial Times
About The Author
Jenny Uglow
Jenny Uglow writes on literature, art, and social history. Her books include award-winning biographies on Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and Edward Lear, as well as group studies including The Lunar Men and the panoramic In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815. A retired editorial director of Chatto & Windus, and former Chair of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, she grew up in Cumbria, and she and her husband Steve now live in Borrowdale.
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