Description
When the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White (1720-93) wrote <i>The Natural History of Selborne</i> (1789) he created one of the greatest and most influential natural history works of all time his detailed observations about birds and animals providing the cornerstones of modern ecology. In this award-winning biography Richard Mabey tells the wonderful story of the clergyman - England's first ecologist - whose inspirational naturalist's handbook has become an English classic.>

