Gilbert White. A biography of the author of The Natural History of Selborne, Paperback - Richard Mabey

When the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White (1720-93) wrote "The Natural History of Selborne" (1789), he created one of the greatest and influenti...

A century before Charles Darwin, decades before the French Revolution, Gilbert White began his lifelong habit of measuring and observing the world ...

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Reducere. A collection of Gilbert White's letters to the explorer and naturalist Daines Barrington and the eminent zoologist Thomas Pennant - White's intelle...

First published in 1789, this is a study of the flora and fauna of the parish of Selborne in Hampshire. This volume also includes the author's corr...

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A new illustrated edition of Gilbert White's classic work of natural history that has delighted readers for more than 200 years. Anne Secord's intr...

White's Natural History and Antiquities (1789) consists of a series of letters written to Daines Barrington and Thomas Pennant. The letters in Natu...

Reducere. The Natural History of Selbourne is a nature history book that describes the bird life of England and the Selbourne area specifically. Here is a pa...

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The Natural History Museum, London is home to one of the world's most important and comprehensive collections of natural history specimens, literat...

Retraces author's life and her transformation from a post-office clerk who left school at fourteen to a sophisticated professional writer. Revealin...

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Publisher: Pryor PublicationsAuthor(s): Albert SmithIllustration(s): 52 line drawingsNumber of pages: 126Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 106 x 13...

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Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): R P Dunn-PattisonIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 172Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 150 x 225 x 1...

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This is a collection of the most memorable portraits taken over the past decades of the international Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition...

All 100 images awarded in the 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition are featured in this powerful collection, together with the storie...

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Voyages of Discovery is a mesmerising visual record of ten of the world's most significant natural history expeditions.

Nephew to Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux, Pte San Hunka (White Bull) was a famous warrior in his own right. He had been on the warpath against wh...

A 'highlights' paperback accompanying the 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, which also showcases the winners of the People's Choic...

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Includes a travel book and a biography of its author.

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One of Britain's foremost nature writers describes how he conquered clinical depression through his re-awakened love of nature.

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A comprehensive introduction to gemstones with stunning colour photographs, written by Natural History Museum curator Robin Hansen.Publisher: The N...

A cultural history of plants in the wrong place, by one of Britain's most admired nature writers, author of Flora Britannica and Birds Britannica. ...

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This first annotated edition of William Gilbert's enigmatic poem, The Hurricane: a Theosophical and Western Eclogue, with extended interpretative c...

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