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A Shepherd's Life

Autor William Henry Hudson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2016
Born in Argentina in 1841, William Henry Hudson grew up in that boisterous, lawless land of wild animals and even wilder desperados. He wrote about both, from recondite papers in 'Proc'eedings of the Zoological Society of London' to best selling novels including Green Mansions' and 'The Purple Land'. Argentina claimed him for her own and, even today, there are streets and towns named in honour of Guillermo Enrique Hudson. But he was strangely discontented with his native land, and by 1870 Hudson had moved to England, settling in Wiltshire where he enjoyed a peripatetic existence, wandering the lanes and by-ways of that fair county, studying its wildlife and gleaning a wealth of antique lore and traditions from its inhabitants. 'A Shepherd's Life' is the fascinating distillation of this labour of love. Hudson's beautiful, evocative prose brings this forgotten time once more to life, leading the reader through forest and downland, meeting farmer, shepherd and gypsy, each living close to the earth, and each with their own store of wisdom to impart. The pages of 'A Shepherd's Life' are crammed with tales of family feuds, deer poaching and battles with game keepers, and peppered throughout with startling stories of animal behavior: from a sheep dog that suckled lambs through whistling hedgehogs to fox cubs that played happily with young rabbits. A book for all who love tales of lives lived in harmony with Nature and the environment.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781909735934
ISBN-10: 1909735930
Pagini: 178
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Aziloth Books

Cuprins

1. Salisbury Plain; 2. Salisbury as I see it; 3. Winterbourne Bishop; 4. A shepherd of the Downs; 5. Early memories; 6. Shepherd Isaac Bawcombe; 7. The deer-stealers; 8. Shepherds and poaching; 9. A shepherd on foxes; 10. Bird-life on the Downs; 11. Starlings and sheep-bells; 12. The shepherd and the Bible; 13. Vale of the Wylye; 14. A sheep-dog's life; 15. Concerning cats; 16. The Ellerbys of Doveton; 17. Old Wiltshire days; 18. Old Wiltshire days continued; 19. The shepherd's return; 20. Dark people of the village; 21. Some sheep-dogs; 22. The shepherd as naturalist; 23. The master of the village; 24. Isaac's children; 25. Living in the past; Index.

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A lyrical evocation of the Wiltshire countryside in the nineteenth century, written by acclaimed naturalist William Henry Hudson in 1910.