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Riviera Nature Notes (Paperback)
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Riviera Nature Notes (Paperback)
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Loot Price R453
Discovery Miles 4 530
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"The spread of the towns, the disforesting of the hills, and other
causes are conspiring to destroy many of the conditions which made
the Riviera of former days so happy a resort for the lovers of
Nature. But there will always be much to observe and much to study
in so favoured a region." Quirky, erudite and eminently readable,
the fifty-four essays comprising Riviera Nature Notes give an
astonishingly clear picture of plant and animal life in the South
of France at the turn of the twentieth century--not to mention a
fascinating insight into the social mores of the time. A hundred
years later the book is as fresh, topical and inviting as when it
was first published. Preferring to remain anonymous as a
naturalist, not only out of modesty but to guard the integrity of
his liturgical writings, its clergyman author speaks of olives and
pines, myrtles and figs, mosquitoes and rare butterflies--to name
but a few of his subjects--with such passion and verve as to bring
the land from the Ligurian coastline to the Maritime Alps vividly
alive. Published first at the expense of Sir Thomas Hanbury, master
of the famed gardens at La Mortola, Italy and benefactor of the
Royal Horticultural Society's sixty-acre estate at Wisley, a second
edition incorporated photographs taken by the temperamental and
extravagant heiress Ellen Wilmot, in many ways a greater figure in
the plant world than her close contemporary Gertrude Jekyll. Our
anonymous author moved in the best horticultural and botanical
circles, wore his learning lightly, and unusually for the time,
spoke to the common man and the general reader on equal terms. With
an engaging, sometimes acerbic, always entertaining and informative
voice speaking effortlessly across the years, he will once again
garner admirers among nature lovers, gardeners and travellers
alike.
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