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'I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.' Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of...
The letters of the eminent naturalist Gilbert White are full of precise, unaffected and delightful observations of the wildlife of his beloved village of Selborne, describing the habits, colours and songs of birds from lapwings to barn-owls, wrens to house-martins. Here...
More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before Darwin, White realised the crucial role of worms in the formation of soil and understood the significance of territory and song in birds. His...
Ce livre rassemble deux séries de lettres que Gilbert White a adressées à Thomas Pennant, un des grands zoologistes de son temps, et à Daines Barrington, juriste et naturaliste amateur. White y rend compte de ses observations minutieuses de la faune et de la flore, et...
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