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English naturalist Gilbert White was the author of "The Natural History of Selborne".
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"I observed a blue mist, smelling strongly of sulphur, hanging along our sloping woods, and seeming to indicate that thunder was at hand," writes Gilbert White, in The Natural History of Selborne 1788.
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English naturalist Gilbert White was the author of "The Natural History of Selborne".
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In collating his observations, Marsham, a friend of the more famous naturalist Gilbert White, crystallised a British fascination.
Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom 2011
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"I observed a blue mist, smelling strongly of sulphur, hanging along our sloping woods, and seeming to indicate that thunder was at hand," writes Gilbert White, in The Natural History of Selborne 1788.
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In August 1786 Gilbert White had a young nightjar—Ibid., pp.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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Gilbert White feels a nightjar singing—Gilbert White, letter XXII, 1769, in White, p.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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This is like Gilbert White or Coleridge, but it is also like Ted Hughes or J. A. Baker, author of The Peregrine, the hallucinatory account of a winter watching or imagining—no one could or can tell—hunting peregrines along the coast of East Anglia.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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This is a work of natural history, focusing on detailed observations of the immediate environment, and written by Gilbert White.
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Gilbert White was given a clutch of two nightjar eggs—White, Journals, p.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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