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The Natural History of Selborne (Penguin English Library)

By: Gilbert White
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 0140431128
ISBN-13: 9780140431124
Released: 26 May 1977
RRP: £0.95
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Learn from the Master... - By: C. W. Bell, 14 Oct 2003
The edition of this book that I possess (circa 1970's) claims that this is something like the third most published book in the English Language, loved from America to Japan. It is a seminal book. When Linnaeus was creating his very methodical classification of the natural world it took a vicar from the little village of Selbourne to put in stone the study of nature through its behavior.

This book taught me how to examine the world around me, but it also offers the guilty pleasure of complete escapism. What could be safer then 1780's Southern England, as yet untouched by industry? Gilbert creates a world where human concerns do not exist & the rhythm of the natural world is alll through this collection of letters to his friends.