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The Annals of My Village - Being a Calendar of Nature, for Every Month in the Year (Paperback)
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The Annals of My Village - Being a Calendar of Nature, for Every Month in the Year (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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The writer Mary Roberts (1788-1864) developed an interest in
natural history while growing up in the Gloucestershire
countryside. This work of observations on wildlife, plants and the
weather, though written while she was living in the village of
Sheepscombe, near Painswick, was not published until 1831, some
time after she had moved to London with her widowed mother and was
a published author. Each chapter is devoted to a month of the year,
and Roberts' acute observation of nature is enhanced by her
considerable knowledge: she cites Withering and Cuvier (both also
reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection) as her reference
sources for plants and animals respectively. Her motive is 'a
sincere desire to interest the dwellers among rural scenes in the
... natural objects that surround them', and there is plenty to
interest the modern reader in this charming account of the ecology
of a remote rural hamlet.
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