The River Wye in the United Kingdom
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The custom of the English nature author is lengthy, proud and distinctly genteel. Its origins lie with the pioneering 18th-century curate Gilbert White, writing from his inherited circle of relatives house in Selborne, Hampshire. He options in a wonderful new piece of nature writing, England: A herbal historical past (Doubleday/Transworld) when the writer observes that “the parson had the time to face and stare”.
That writer, John Lewis-Stempel, additionally has the parson’s luxurious. A a success author with a string of nature books in the back of him, he explores 12 English landscapes, from the Thames estuary to…
