The Cottage Book: Sir Edward Grey's Country Cottage Book: The Undiscovered Country Diary of an Edwardian Statesman - Softcover

Grey, Sir Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0297607529 ISBN 13: 9780297607526

Publisher: Orion, 2001

Synopsis

The great Edwardian statesman Sir Edward Grey was a passionate naturalist, and co-founder of the RSPB. Between 1895 and 1905 he made detailed nature notes at his cottage by a trout stream near Itchen Abbas in Hampshire. The text of his ¿cottage book¿ forms the basis for this beautiful book, alongside dozens of specially commissioned watercolours, contemporary photographs and woodcuts, and maps. This is a volume that all nature-lovers will treasure.

About this title

Book Description:

A beautifully illustrated diary of the birds, flowers and weather beside a Hampshire stream in the 1890s. Now published in paperback.

About the Author:

Sir Edward Grey (1862¿1933), 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, was Home Secretary between 1905 and 1916. In 1914 he said: ¿The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.¿

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0297607529
• ISBN 13: 9780297607526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160