From the Publisher
"I can wholeheartedly recommend this edition ... Beautifully produced ... 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." — Diarmid A. Finnegan, Journal of Historical Geography
"This Oxford edition offers new insights into a work that has been hugely popular." — Land and Business"This book set the standard for much of the nature writing that has followed in its wake. 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." - Arts & Humanities Research Council
APRIL 2024 - AudioFile
Peter Wickham slips easily into the voice of the eighteenth-century English parson and naturalist Gilbert White as he delivers White's pioneering study of the seasonal patterns of plants and animals. Vigorous and precise, Wickham's performance captures not only the antique grace of White's prose, but also his understanding of the importance of the details he was recording. Written in the form of letters to other naturalists, these brief chapters evoke a time when nature shaped the cycles of everyday life. They are ideal companions for gardening and chores, and, equally, for times of unease and stress. Written at the same time as the American Constitution, they are as remote from politics, strife, and pollution as this century is from that untroubled country garden in England. D.A.W. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine
