Wild Life in a Southern County
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- Author: Richard Jefferies
- Date Published: January 2011
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108025355
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Richard Jefferies (1848–1887) remains one of the most thoughtful and most lyrical writers on the English countryside. He had aspirations to make a living as a novelist, but it was his short, factually based articles for The Live Stock Journal and other magazines, drawn from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community into which he had been born, which when collected in book form brought him recognition (though not wealth), and which continued to be read and admired after his early death. Wild Life in a Southern County, published in 1879, examines the habitats of the Downs and the birds and animals which live there. Written in Jefferies' highly descriptive style, these essays reveal his deep love and knowledge of the countryside. The sense of wonder evoked by the natural world, which permeates all of Jefferies' works, is fully exemplified in this volume.
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- Date Published: January 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108025355
- length: 406 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.51kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. The Downs
2. A drought
3. The hillside hedge
4. The village
5. Village architecture
6. The hamlet
7. The farmhouse
8. Birds of the farmhouse
9. The orchard
10. The woodpile
11. The home-field
12. The ash copse
13. The warren
14. The rookery
15. Rooks returning to roost
16. Notes on birds
17. Notes on the year
18. Snake-lore
19. Course of the brook
20. Wildfowl of the lake.
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