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More than any other writer, Gilbert White helped shape the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before Darwin, White realized the crucial role of worms in the formation of soil and understood the significance of territory and song in birds. His precise, scrupulously honest, and unaffectedly witty observations led him to interpret animals' behavior in a unique manner. This collection of his letters to the explorer and naturalist Daines Barrington and the eminent zoologist Thomas Pennant—White's intellectual lifelines from his country-village home—are a beautifully written, detailed evocation of the lives of the flora and fauna of eighteenth-century England.
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About Gilbert White
Gilbert White (1720-1793) was an English naturalist and ornithologist who is best known for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and is regarded as England’s first ecologist and an influencer who shaped a modern, respectful attitude toward nature.
About James Taylor
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.