Bird life and bird lore
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Bird life and bird lore
（Cambridge library collection, . Life sciences）
Cambridge University Press, 2013
- : pbk
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"This digitally printed version 2013"--T.p. verso
Reprint. Originally published: John Murray, London, 1905
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'Birds have been to me the solace, the recreation, the passion of a lifetime.' So wrote Reginald Bosworth Smith (1839-1908), former Classics master at Harrow School. As a young man, he published his first book on birds while teaching at Oxford, and he continued to combine his lifelong love of birds with classical and literary teaching and research. He retired to a country house in Dorset and in 1905 published this book, based on a series of articles written in his retirement. Recording his own observations, some of many years before, and peppered with scholarly references to birds in literature, the essays cover individual birds such as the owl, the raven and the magpie, as well as bird-watching in Dorset and beyond. Imparting a love and respect for wildlife that remains inspiring, this book will be of great interest to the bird-lover and scholar of today.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Owls
- 2. The raven - descriptive
- 3. The raven in poetry, history, hagiology, and folk-lore
- 4. The raven - personal experiences
- 5. The old thatched rectory and its birds
- 6. The wild duck
- 7. A day on a Norfolk mere
- 8. The magpie
- 9. The old manor house and its surroundings
- 10. Bird life at Bingham's Melcombe
- Appendix.
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