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Synopsis
Those who know the downs and chalk streams of Hampshire are quietly fortunate but rarely boastful. So it is fascinating to rediscover this home county, on the eastern edge of Wessex, as a place of extraordinary richness. Those rounded chalk hills have protected not only the ancient capital of Anglo-Saxon England but also the two-thousand-year-old arsenal-harbour of the Royal Navy. It was in Hampshire that the novel reached its fullest expression through the native genius of Jane Austen, where fly-fishing and cricket were first organized and whence D-day was launched. But not the least of its claims is that it is also the heartland of nature writing, where Gilbert White first opened up a whole universe of observation to the world, by confining himself to the infinite details of his Hampshire parish of Selborne. It is a tradition which was furthered in the county by W H Hudson, observing nature in the wooded heathlands of the New Forest and reached its apogee with the night walks of the poet Edward Thomas before his early death in the trenches. If Hampshire is revealed to be a crystalisation of all quiet virtues of England, we also get to delight in the affectionate mocking attention of Beryl Bainbridge, P G Wodehouse and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Alastair Langlands has been rooted in the beech woods above Selborne for nearly fifty years, though he is a native of Galloway. An eloquent speaker and performer, he was also a passionate teacher of English, and has shepherded generations of young actors, artists and writers from the theatre and concert halls of Bedales School into lives of creativity. He bakes bread at dawn, organises madrigals and plays the double bass and directs an annual summer festival of Shakespeare. He is supported by a love of cricket, claret and Wagner s Ring Cycle, has visited the theatre once a week and has never knowingly missed an opportunity for a swim
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- PublisherEland Publishing Ltd
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1780600984
- ISBN 13 9781780600987
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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