Jefferies' Land - Jefferies, Richard
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Jefferies' Land: A History of Swindon and Its Environs is a book written by Richard Jefferies in 1896. The book is a comprehensive history of the town of Swindon and its surrounding areas, providing a detailed account of the area's development from prehistoric times to the 19th century. The book is divided into four parts, each covering a different period of Swindon's history. The first part describes the prehistoric landscape of the area, including the formation of the Marlborough Downs and the Ridgeway. The second part covers the Roman occupation of the area and the establishment of the town…mehr

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Jefferies' Land: A History of Swindon and Its Environs is a book written by Richard Jefferies in 1896. The book is a comprehensive history of the town of Swindon and its surrounding areas, providing a detailed account of the area's development from prehistoric times to the 19th century. The book is divided into four parts, each covering a different period of Swindon's history. The first part describes the prehistoric landscape of the area, including the formation of the Marlborough Downs and the Ridgeway. The second part covers the Roman occupation of the area and the establishment of the town of Swindon as a market town. The third part covers the medieval period, including the construction of Swindon's famous Old Town Hall and the development of the wool trade. The final part covers the 19th century, including the construction of the Great Western Railway and the growth of Swindon as an industrial town.Throughout the book, Jefferies provides detailed descriptions of the landscape, architecture, and people of Swindon and its environs. He also includes numerous illustrations and photographs to help readers visualize the area's history. Overall, Jefferies' Land provides a fascinating insight into the history of Swindon and its surrounding areas, and is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of the town and the wider region.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. Jefferies's corpus of writings covers a range of genres and topics, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), a work of science fiction. For much of his adult life he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings about the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time, but it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not.