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The Natural History of Selbourne

Gilbert White

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English
Blurb
25 October 2021
The Natural History of Selbourne is a nature history book that describes the bird life of England and the Selbourne area specifically. Here is a passage from the book: See, Selborne spreads her boldest beauties round The varied valley, and the mountain ground, Wildly majestic ! What is all the pride, Of flats, with loads of ornaments supplied ?-- Unpleasing, tasteless, impotent expense, Compared with Nature's rude magnificenee. Arise, my stranger, to these wild scenes haste; The unfinish'd farm awaits your forming taste: Plan the pavilion, airy, light, and true; Through the high arch call in the length'ning view; Expand the forest sloping up the hill; Swell to a lake the scant, penurious rill; Extend the vista; raise the castle mound In antique taste, with turrets ivy-crown'd: O'er the gay lawn the flow'ry shrub dispread, Or with the blending garden mix the mead; Bid China's pale, fantastic fence delight; Or with the mimic statue trap the sight.""
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Imprint:   Blurb
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   299g
ISBN:   9781006362880
ISBN 10:   1006362886
Pages:   218
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Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  English as a second language
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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