The River Wye within the UK
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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 household residence in Selborne, Hampshire. He options in a positive new piece of nature writing, England: A pure historical past (Doubleday/Transworld) when the creator observes that “the parson had the time to stand and stare”.
That creator, John Lewis-Stempel, additionally has the parson’s luxurious. A profitable author with a string of nature books behind him, he explores 12 English landscapes, from the Thames estuary to…
