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Search - In Nature's Ways, A Book For All Young Lovers Of Nature - Being An Introduction To Gilbert White's "Natural History Of Selborne"

In Nature's Ways A Book For All Young Lovers Of Nature Being An Introduction To Gilbert White's Natural History Of Selborne
Author: Marcus Woodward

A BOOK FOR ALL YOUNG LOVERS OF NATURE BEING AN INTRODUCTION TO GILBERT WHITES NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE - 1922 - IN NATURES WAYS F TWO NATURE - BOOKS . BY Owen Jones and Marcus Woodward Authors of A Gamekeepers Note Book Ut iforr in selz and Price with In Nntures Ways. Woodcraft Packed from end to eod with observations and iostructiqns which t... more »urn the countryside and its small inhabitants from a serles of perplexing puzzles into a vast hook which every intelligelkt person can read for himself.-Tl. Glele. A book which would make a delightful present for any country child.--Courrfpy Ltye. Boys will certainly like this book.-dfanchesfcr Guardirm. A truly delightful companion for the rambler and woodman. Pall bIdl Gazette. A charming book on woodcraft.-School Guarzan. Going About the Country With Your Eyes Open A delightfully varied volume dealing with topics full of interest and also of instruction to those who knock about the country. bIoming Post. These well-known collaboraton once more show that they have . th . e . k nnaoc kb eottfe irm bpoaorkt icnogu lidn fhoerm pautti oinn tion t htlel ch amnodsst ocfh aa rbmoyin. g fashion Evening Sfadard. An excellent book for boys with a lovs of the country, and, for the matter of that, for those who have passed the years of boyhood but have retained their interest in wild nature. Birmingkarn Post, A capital book of all kinds of outdoor lore and practice. Times. - PREFACE - THIS book was plamed and written with the purpose of introducing young people to Gilbert Whites Natural History of Selborne, and t, o encourage the study of that immortal work. From earliest days of reading, when I learned to love this book, though I could not understand it, and mould absorb myself for hours and days in its pages pardoning, for the sake of the information, as Gilbert White once asked his original reader to do, the quaint and magisterial air, and reading on with ever new delight at his ideas-ideas of everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous -, I have always thought that a childs Selborne was needed in the same way as was a childs Bible, and a Tales from Shakespeare - not only an expurgated edition, but one with a simple running commentary of notes and explanations. The book is not suitable for young readers, or readers young in the study of the natural history of an English countryside. The quaint and sometimes magisterial air of some of the letters, their geography and their geology, make them hard reading the book is like a country ringed about by rugged mountain barriers which keep many travellers from the delectable valleys of the interior. Yet how full of delight for all young lovers of Nature, how full of the sense of everything t, hat is rural, verdurous, and joyous, like the fieldcrickets song, a, re selected passages In almost every page is some glowing pa, ssa, ge, an observation, an anecdote, a piece of curious reasoning, of et, ernal t. ruth and beauty, making as sure appeal to young minds as to those strong enough to scale mountains of difficulty - as that simple story of the little girl who, as she was going to bed, used to remark on hearing the distant murmuring from a rookery, that the rooks mere saying the prayers. In the selected passages a teachcr may find golden lessons indeed, for tlhe childrens reading or writing. I have chosen the passages on the general plan of giving those which express simple truths, so that a, ny teacher may take them at random, and be sure that they will serve for lessons, a word which in such a case will lose its usual meaning to children...

ISBN-13: 9781408624081
ISBN-10: 1408624087
Publication Date: 10/29/2007
Pages: 228
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Publisher: Sumner Press
Book Type: Paperback
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