Richard Jefferies

Wild Life in a Southern County (eBook, ePUB)

Exploring the Beauty of English Wildlife

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Richard Jefferies' book 'Wild Life in a Southern County', the author takes readers on a fascinating journey through the natural beauty and wildlife of the English countryside. Through vivid description and keen observation, Jefferies paints a detailed picture of the flora and fauna of a rural landscape, showcasing the diversity and wonder of the natural world. Written in a lyrical and poetic style, the book transports readers to a simpler time when man and nature lived in harmony. Jefferies' work is considered a masterpiece of nature writing, capturing the essence of the English countryside in all its glory. His deep connection to nature shines through in every page, making this book a timeless classic for nature enthusiasts and literary scholars alike. 'Wild Life in a Southern County' is a must-read for anyone looking to immerse themselves in the beauty of the natural world and gain a deeper appreciation for the wonders of the countryside.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Good Press
• Seitenzahl: 295
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 4064066206512
• Artikelnr.: 58755597

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The Downs
2. A drought
3. The hillside hedge
4. The village
5. Village architecture
6. The hamlet
7. The farmhouse
8. Birds of the farmhouse
9. The orchard
10. The woodpile
11. The home-field
12. The ash copse
13. The warren
14. The rookery
15. Rooks returning to roost
16. Notes on birds
17. Notes on the year
18. Snake-lore
19. Course of the brook
20. Wildfowl of the lake.