Birds of Selborne by Gilbert White

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Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside. This title includes observations of the wildlife of the author's village Selborne, describing the habits, colours and songs of birds from lapwings to barn-owls, wrens to house-martins. It includes writings on trees, fossils, bats and rainfall.

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Birds of Selborne by Gilbert White

Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside. This title includes observations of the wildlife of the author's village Selborne, describing the habits, colours and songs of birds from lapwings to barn-owls, wrens to house-martins. It includes writings on trees, fossils, bats and rainfall.
Gilbert White (1720-93) was born in his grandfather's vicarage at Selborne, Hampshire. After studying at Oriel College, Oxford, White spent much of the next fifteen years travelling around England but always returned home. Birds of Selborne is taken from his famous work The Natural History of Selborne, a compilation of his correspondences with Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington, and reputedly the fourth most published book in the English language.
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ISBN 13 9780141190938
ISBN 10 0141190930
Title Birds of Selborne
Author Gilbert White
Series Penguin English Journeys
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 2009-04-02
Number of pages 128
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.