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

A Year with Gilbert White : The First Great Nature Writer SIGNED bookplate, Jenny UglowNew Hardback with SIGNED bookplate 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

Blackie's acclaimed work draws on both mythology and contemporary female role models to issue an urgent and inspiring new progressive manifesto

When they scattered to different kingdoms

restoring an important but often forgotten part of our country

preparing and creating a meal into a busy life

Wedding pigs in China

and on those who have used

a strange sensation in some part of your body

The most famous developer of airships was Graf von Zeppelin and the book tells the story of the use of his airships in both peacetime and at war

Bound in black buckram with gold and red design to front and spine

as is their humour and occasional cynicism

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