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He took ordination and held a number of curacies in the vicinity of Selborne before finally becoming permanent curate of his birthplace in , a position he held until his death in In he started keeping his 'Garden Kalendar', and later the 'Naturalist's Journal' he kept for 25 years.
The Natural History of Selborne. Gilbert White Edited by Anne Secord. Oxford World's Classics. An attractively illustrated, critically up-to-date edition of Gilbert. Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne () reveals a world of wonders in of Gilbert White's classic work of natural history that has delighted readers for.
The Natural History of Selborne is based on his correspondence with two distinguished naturalists, Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington. The focus of her research and writing is on popular natural history in nineteenth-century Britain, and on horticulture, medicine, and consumption in the eighteenth century. She is completing a book that explores social class, observation, and skill in nineteenth-century natural history for the University of Chicago Press.
Secord's introduction - surely one of the chief reasons to purchase this new edition of a book never out of print - provides a nuanced and stimulating account of the origins, character, and legacies of Selborne. Finnegan, Journal of Historical Geography.
White is a great example of an amateur naturalist - the grandfather of citizen science and public data capture. The work is a powerful reminder of the richness of the natural world in White's time and a marker of how much we've lost since then. Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Academic Skip to main content. Choose your country or region Close. The typical delivery time is 2 weeks. Combines minute observation of the behaviour of animals and birds with anecdote and local description, in a charmingly intimate style. Includes 17 contemporary illustrations by Thomas Pennant, one of White's chief correspondents. Includes a contextualizing introduction and an appendix of responses to the book from scientists, naturalists, poets, novelists, and writers over two centuries.
His gossipy correspondence has delighted readers from Charles Darwin to Virginia Woolf, and it has been read as a nostalgic evocation of a pastoral vision, a model for local studies of plants and animals, and a precursor to modern ecology. This new edition includes contemporary illustrations, a contextualizing introduction, and an appendix of literary responses to the book. For over years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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