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A Shepherd's Life William Henry Hudson

A Shepherd's Life By William Henry Hudson

Summary

William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) was a naturalist and author, acclaimed both for his knowledge of wildlife and for his literary style. A Shepherd's Life, published in 1910, contains his impressions of the Wiltshire Downs - the people, places, wildlife and history - gained by tramping around the English countryside.

A Shepherd's Life Summary

A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) was an Argentinian-born American naturalist and author, who moved to England in 1874, and became known for his writings on natural history, both Argentine and English, and for his work with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. He travelled the country, observing wildlife and rural life in general, and won high praise both for his work as a naturalist and for his literary style. A Shepherd's Life, published in 1910, contains his impressions of the Wiltshire Downs - the people, places, wildlife and history - which are enhanced by numerous line-drawings. The central character of the book, Caleb Bawcombe, an elderly shepherd, is fictitious, but clearly based on real people Hudson had talked to in Wiltshire, and the overall picture is of continuing closeness to nature, despite enormous changes in agricultural practice, in rural societies at the end of the nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

1. Salisbury Plain; 2. Salisbury as I see it; 3. Winterbourne Bishop; 4. A shepherd of the Downs; 5. Early memories; 6. Shepherd Isaac Bawcombe; 7. The deer-stealers; 8. Shepherds and poaching; 9. A shepherd on foxes; 10. Bird-life on the Downs; 11. Starlings and sheep-bells; 12. The shepherd and the Bible; 13. Vale of the Wylye; 14. A sheep-dog's life; 15. Concerning cats; 16. The Ellerbys of Doveton; 17. Old Wiltshire days; 18. Old Wiltshire days continued; 19. The shepherd's return; 20. Dark people of the village; 21. Some sheep-dogs; 22. The shepherd as naturalist; 23. The master of the village; 24. Isaac's children; 25. Living in the past; Index.

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NLS9781108025348
9781108025348
110802534X
A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by William Henry Hudson
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2011-01-13
378
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