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- Title
- Journals of Gilbert White
- Author
- Johnson, Walter, Ed.
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication year
- 1971
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 026260003X
- ISBN 13
- 9780262600033
- Edition
- Reprint edition
This edition consists of excerpts from among the full 10,000 daily records found in the unpublished journals. These excerpts cover each of the years from 1768 to 1793.
Gilbert White (1720-1793) studied theology at Oxford and was ordained in 1747. He devoted his life to his native parish of Selborne, in Hampshire, and to observing the natural history and antiquities of its environs. In 1789 his Natural History of Selborne, which may still be the most widely read of all nature books, was published. His writings altogether are enhanced by a delightful simplicity of style and by a precision of naturalistic scientific observation. White had an eye for the minute which could also embrace the full grandeur of nature in all its ripeness. He can even restore a temporary wholeness to his readers, one of whom remarked that "to read him is to find one's own world mended. I think it is the way he steadies the mind."
These five typical days from 1784 may afford a subliminal glimpse of his world:
"Apr. 15. Dog-toothed violets blow.
"Apr. 16. Nightingale heard in Maidendance. Ring-dove builds in my fields. Black-cap sings.
"Apr. 17. The buds of the vines are not swelled yet at all. In fine springs they have shot by this time two or three inches.
"Apr. 19. Timothy the tortoise begins to stir; he heaves-up the mould that lies over his back. Red-start is heard at the verge of the highwood against the common....
"Apr. 23. Timothy the tortoise comes forth from his winter-retreat."
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