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Author : Gilbert White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Natural history
ISBN : PSU:000001452754
Author : Richard Mabey
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847653857
When the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White (1720-93) wrote The Natural History of Selborne (1789), he created one of the greatest and most influential natural history works of all time, his detailed observations about birds and animals providing the cornerstones of modern ecology. In this award-winning biography, Richard Mabey tells the wonderful story of the clergyman - England's first ecologist - whose inspirational naturalist's handbook has become an English classic.
Author : Gilbert White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Natural history
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3FKQ
Author : Gilbert White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Natural history
ISBN : LCCN:39006024
Author : Simon Martin
Publisher : Pallant House Gallery
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 1869827759
The natural world as seen through the eyes of British artists including Eric Ravilious, Clare Leighton, and John Piper Since its publication in 1789, Gilbert White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne has inspired generations of artists, writers and naturalists. From Thomas Bewick to Eric Ravilious and Clare Leighton, many artists' depictions of animals, birds and wildlife have illustrated White's celebrated book, together providing a microcosm of natural history illustration from the eighteenth century until today. In Drawn to Nature, Simon Martin has gathered joyful and beautiful images of the extraordinary array of wildlife described by White, providing an insight into the continuing appeal and relevance of the Natural History. This fascinating account takes us from some of the earliest published depictions of birds and animals, to pioneering nature photography, the revival of wood-engraving in the 1920s and 30s, and responses to White's message about the natural world by contemporary illustrators such as Angie Lewin and Emily Sutton. The book also includes an introduction to the life of Gilbert White by Sir David Attenborough, an essay by Virginia Woolf, poems by modern and contemporary poets, and a jacket design by Mark Hearld.
Author : Gilbert White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Naturalists
ISBN : 0712622616
Author : Ted Dadswell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351882101
Gilbert White's name is known universally but, as Ted Dadswell insists in this book, important aspects of his work have frequently been overlooked even by scholarly editors. The Selborne naturalist (1720-1793) has been described as 'a prince of personal observers'; but a shrewd analytical questioning and comparing was also typical of his 'natural knowledge'. Exceptional even in his general aims, White studied the behaviour, the 'manners' and 'conversation', of his animals and plants. He saw, moreover, that an animal or plant and indeed a parish such as his own, was unitary in operation; again and again, a cause had numerous effects and an effect numerous causes. Observation could go forward in circumstances such as these, if one was both sharp-eyed and patient, but how could true investigation be managed? How could a particular cause or effect be isolated or tested? Here what Dadswell calls White's 'comparative habit' was put to good use. Gilbert White was a careful keeper of records, and using these comparatively he 'appealed to controls' while examining his living creatures. Questioning and testing even the 'entirely usual', White was brought back repeatedly to the notion of adaptability. His zoological findings often concerned 'changed or changing' animals (or birds) and their social and inter-personal relationships. Today, we can seem particularly well placed to appreciate his methods and factual claims; our 'ethologists' and ecologists have - seemingly - corroborated much of what he did. And yet just this corroboration renders him the more mysterious. To properly assess White as naturalist, we must be able to approach him not only scientifically but also historically. He hoped for the emergence of teams of behavioural workers but did not try to pre-empt what would be achieved only by such teams, and while he 'saw with his own eyes', as his friend John Mulso says, he was substantially affected by certain of his contemporaries and predecessors. His journals and notebooks show us the naturalist at work. When a perhaps unexpected combination of influences is allowed for, his 'unique' activities can be at least partially explained.
Author : Gilbert White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Natural history
ISBN : HARVARD:HW2CNF
Author : Gilbert White
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Natural history
ISBN : 1851830510
Author : Verlyn Klinkenborg
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679407287
Timothy, a tortoise who lived in the garden of eighteenth-century curate Gilbert White, speaks out on his life in the garden, his nine-day adventure outside the gate, his observations of the curious habits and habitations of humans, and the natural world around him. 30,000 first printing.
Author : Gilbert White,Marcus Woodward
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781528784221
“White's Selborne for Boys and Girls” is a classic guide to the birds of Britain, originally written for children. It offers the reader interesting and entertaining anecdotes interlaced with facts and observations from an expert. This wonderfully-written guide is perfect for introducing children to birds and bird watching, and it will also be of interest to adults with an interest in the topic. Contents include: “Approach to the Village”, “Raven”, “Hind”, “Swift”, “Peregrine Falcon”, “Snipe”, “Hoopoe”, “Bat”, “Harvest Mice”, “Chaffinch”, “Grey Wagtail”, “Weasel”, “Willow-Wren”, “Stone Curlew”, “Viper”, “Green Sandpiper”, “Jackdaw”, “Ring-Ousel”, “Nightingale”, “Chough”, “Wood-Lark”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction.
Author : John Mulso
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108038416
The fascinating and revealing letters, published in 1907, of John Mulso to his friend, naturalist Gilbert White (1720-93).
Author : Rashleigh Holt-White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108076494
Published in 1901, this illustrated two-volume biography traces the renowned naturalist's life and achievements, incorporating a selection of his correspondence.
Author : Gilbert White
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547779063
This book is a compilation of the author's letters to other naturalists – Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington. Some of the letters were never posted, and were written for the book. White's Natural History was at once well received by contemporary critics and the public, and continued to be admired by a diverse range of nineteenth and twentieth century literary figures. His work has been seen as an early contribution to ecology and in particular to phenology. The book has been enjoyed for its charm and apparent simplicity, and the way that it creates a vision of pre-industrial England.
Author : Alan Bewell
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421420967
Understanding the dynamics of British colonialism and the enormous ecological transformations that took place through the mobilization and globalized management of natures. For many critics, Romanticism is synonymous with nature writing, for representations of the natural world appear during this period with a freshness, concreteness, depth, and intensity that have rarely been equaled. Why did nature matter so much to writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? And how did it play such an important role in their understanding of themselves and the world? In Natures in Translation, Alan Bewell argues that there is no Nature in the singular, only natures that have undergone transformation through time and across space. He examines how writers—as disparate as Erasmus and Charles Darwin, Joseph Banks, Gilbert White, William Bartram, William Wordsworth, John Clare, and Mary Shelley—understood a world in which natures were traveling and resettling the globe like never before. Bewell presents British natural history as a translational activity aimed at globalizing local natures by making them mobile, exchangeable, comparable, and representable. Bewell explores how colonial writers, in the period leading up to the formulation of evolutionary theory, responded to a world in which new natures were coming into being while others disappeared. For some of these writers, colonial natural history held the promise of ushering in a “cosmopolitan” nature in which every species, through trade and exchange, might become a true “citizen of the world.” Others struggled with the question of how to live after the natures they depended upon were gone. Ultimately, Natures in Translation demonstrates that—far from being separate from the dominant concerns of British imperial culture—nature was integrally bound up with the business of empire.
