Instead of birds, the naturalist turns here to people met on his wanderings through southern England: stories of brothers, an old man’s delusion, a samphire gatherer, a dog named Dandy, little girls he has met, and Surrey and Wiltshire villages with their apple blossom and vanishing curtsey. Many of the sketches first appeared in The Nation, The Saturday Review and other papers.
Quiet, observant prose by the author of Green Mansions and Far Away and Long Ago. Download the free EPUB.