Richard Jefferies was the most imaginative and least conventional of nineteenth-century observers of the natural world. Trekking across the English countryside, he recorded his responses to everything from the texture of an owl's feather and 'noises in the air' to the grinding hardship of rural labo[...]
The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing -- reissues of long-lost seminal works. The titles have been chosen by one of Britain's best known and highly acclaimed nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, who has also written new introductions that put these classics into [...]
" Terry and Brooke]'s quest to understand Jefferies' ideas of a 'soul-life' has brought the British writer's ideas alive..."
--"THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE"
..".an oustanding new book...a first-rate tribute to an author who now has been rescued from obscurity."
--"THE UTAH REVIEW"
..".a smal[...]