Blogs about: Gilbert White
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Avonville and Selborne
Anyone who spotted an attempt at a similarity between this blog and Gilbert White’s The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne would be right. The Reverend White (1720 – 1793) examine… more →
Avonville Journal
The Language of Birds
wrote 1 month ago: The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech, very elliptical: lit … more →
Peacock butterfly
wrote 1 month ago: Trapped inside Gilbert White’s house, Selborne, Hampshire, February 2009. … more →
Gilbert White and the Universe in our Back Yard
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wrote 2 months ago: A couple of years ago I visited the home of the naturalist Gilbert White. Selbourne village in Hamps … more →
Books and a reading lamp
wrote 11 months ago: A particularly random assortment of books (20p each) this week. A JM Synge travelogue (the Arran Isl … more →
The sedentary birder...
wrote 11 months ago: As my illness progresses – though I continue to hope that this is just a bad spell, and things … more →
Notes and Evasions
wrote 1 year ago: A while ago in Lancaster’s Oxfam bookshop, I picked up a sumptuous edition of A Natural Histor … more →
Avonville and Selborne
wrote 2 years ago: Anyone who spotted an attempt at a similarity between this blog and Gilbert White’s The Natura … more →
GILBERT WHITE'S WORLD
wrote 4 years ago: Gilbert White was born at a vicarage in Selbourne, England. As a child he moved about a hundred yard … more →
