Pre-Owned The Natural History of Selborne (Paperback) by Gilbert White

from johnthefireman

One of the earliest nature books by a village priest in England who was an amateur naturalist. It seems that in those days a lot of such work was done by amateur gentlemen, and I believe they laid the foundations for more professional scientific studies later on. However their view of conservatio...

from m.belljackson

What a beautiful book with the tiny white birds rendered on a soft sweet cover! It is hard to read how callously he shoots, kills and collects birds as "specimens." As well, his defense of sportsmen shooting birds and animals simply as targets and his refusal to condemn boys for cruelly killing b...

from johnthefireman

One of the earliest nature books by a village priest in England who was an amateur naturalist. It seems that in those days a lot of such work was done by amateur gentlemen, and I believe they laid the foundations for more professional scientific studies later on. However their view of conservatio...

from AlanWPowers

Gilbert White's classic, best in an illustrated edition like Century (1988), can be read like the Bible, a few paragraphs a day to muse on. Or one sentence: "The language of birds is very ancient and like other ancient modes of speech, very elliptical; little is said, but much is meant and unders...

from AlanWPowers

Gilbert White's classic, best in an illustrated edition like Century (1988), can be read like the Bible, a few paragraphs a day to muse on. Or one sentence: "The language of birds is very ancient and like other ancient modes of speech, very elliptical; little is said, but much is meant and unders...