A Year with Gilbert White : The First Great Nature Writer , Jenny Uglow

A Year with Gilbert White : The First Great Nature Writer , Jenny UglowNew Hardback In 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 path breaking 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

They face dashed hopes

A patch of grass from a Christmas tree

A few months later

One afternoon many years ago

and the well-being of Indigenous Peoples who have fought for centuries for rights and recognition

this encyclopedia has in-depth entries on such subjects as:   The Arkenstone Azog and Bolg Dragons Elvish Faërie Girion Lake-town Pipes and pipe-weed The Quest of Erebor Wasterlands The prequel to The Lord of the Rings (1954)

They embarked on a brand of Test cricket that breathed life into an ailing format

Apart from that

Ann Schmiesing tells the affecting story of how the Grimms’ ambitious projects gave the brothers a sense of self-preservation through the atrocities of the Napoleonic Wars and a series of personal losses

and Europe

Rye and Spelt

the many themes that feed into her novels - revolutionary France