The Open Air - Softcover

Jefferies, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1481283731 ISBN 13: 9781481283731

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Excerpt: ...friend, the boathook, kept mestationerywithout effort, and in time rest restored the strained muscles to physical equanimity. The roar of the river falling over the dam soothed the mind

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About the Author:

John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction.Jefferies's corpus of writings includes a diversity of genres and topics, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction. For much of his adult life, he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1481283731
• ISBN 13: 9781481283731
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156