The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White
Edited by Anne Secord

• An attractive illustrated edition of Gilbert White's classic work of natural history that has delighted readers for more than 200 years.
• Combining minute observation of the behaviour of animals and birds with anecdote and local description, White's appealing style has charmed and inspired readers from Charles Darwin to Virginia Woolf.
• Includes c. 18 contemporary illustrations from the work of Thomas Pennant, one of White's chief correspondents.
• The Introduction by Anne Secord sets the work in its eighteenth-century context, showing how its epistolary form is intrinsic to its appeal.
• Features an Appendix of responses to The Natural History of Selborne from scientists, naturalists, poets, novelists, and writers over two centuries.
• Useful Explanatory Notes add historical context and identification, and the edition also includes a Chronology and Biographical Index.

The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White
Edited by Anne Secord

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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White
Edited by Anne Secord

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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White
Edited by Anne Secord

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Enlightened blogging? Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne

By Anne Secord White's classic text can be read as a shrewd exercise to encourage readers to follow a startlingly novel approach to studying the natural world. Most naturalists at that time based their natural systems and classifications of all living beings on the study of dead specimens in collections.

Posted on November 21, 2013

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