Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies

Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies

Wild Life in a Southern County traces the course of a spring which rises on an Iron Age hillfort and gradually broadens into a brook, flows through a nearby village and hamlet, skirts a solitary farmhouse and its orchard, before draining into water meadows and a lake where the wildfowl nest. Immersed in the detail of this ancient landscape, its people and the habitats of its wildlife, what emerges from Jefferies' dazzling prose is his sense of perpetual wonder and the deep affection he felt for his homeland, from the clatter of a milkmaid's boots to a pike lying in ambush.

RICHARD JEFFERIES (1848-1887) was the father of English nature writing, authoring many nonfiction books and essays about the subject. He also wrote several novels, including the classic children's book Bevis and the apocalyptic science-fiction novel After London.

RICHARD MABEY (editor/introducer) is the author of more than thirty books, which have won the English National Book Award and been finalists for the Whitbread, the Ondaatje, and the J. R. Ackerley prizes. He writes for the Guardian, New Statesman, and Granta, and contributes frequently to BBC radio. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2011.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781908213006
ISBN 10	1908213000
Title	Wild Life in a Southern County
Author	Richard Jefferies
Series	Nature Classics Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little Toller Books
Year published	2011-05-20
Number of pages	272
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.