Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Field And Hedgerow (1889) By: Richard Jefferies: John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) Was An English Nature Writer, Noted For HISBN13:9781548011000ISBN10:1548011002Author:Jefferies, Richard (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - (John) Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) Is Best Known For His Prolific And Sensitive Writing On Natural History, Rural Life And Agriculture In Late Victorian England However, A Closer Examination Of His Career Reveals A Many-Sided Author Who Was Something Of An Enigma To Some People He Is More Familiar As The Author Of The Children's Classic Bevis Or The Strange Futuristic Fantasy After London, While He Also Has Some Reputation As A Mystic Worthy Of Serious Study Since His Death His Books Have Enjoyed Intermittent Spells Of Popularity, But Today He Is Unknown To The Greater Part Of The Reading Public Jefferies, However, Has Been An Inspiration To A Number Of More Prominent Writers And W H Hudson, Edward Thomas, Henry Williamson And John Fowles Are Among Those Who Have Acknowledged Their Debt To Him In My View His Greatest Achievement Lies In His Expression, Aesthetically And Spiritually, Of The Human Encounter With The Natural World - Something That Became Almost An Obsession For Him In His Last Years He Was Born At Coate In The North Wiltshire Countryside - Now On The Outskirts Of Swindon - Where His Family Farmed A Smallholding Of About Forty Acres His Father Was A Thoughtful Man With A Passionate Love Of Nature But Was Unsuccessful As A Farmer, With The Result That The Later Years Of Jefferies' Childhood Were Spent In A Household Increasingly Threatened By Poverty There Were Also, It Seems, Other Tensions In The Family Richard's Mother, Who Had Been Brought Up In London, Never Settled Into A Life In The Country And The Portrait Of Her As Mrs Iden - Usually Regarded As An Accurate One - In His Last Novel, Amaryllis At The Fair, Is Anything But Flattering Remarks Made In Some Of Jefferies' Childhood Letters To His Aunt Also Strongly Suggest An Absence Of Mutual Affection And Understanding Between Mother And Son A Combination Of An Unsettled Home Life And An Early Romantic Desire For Adventure Led Him At The Age Of Sixteen To Leave Home With The Intention Of Traversing Europe As Far As Moscow In This Escapade He Was Accompanied By A Cousin, But The Journey Was Abandoned Soon After They Reached France On Their Return To England They Attempted To Board A Ship For The United States But This Plan Also Came To Nothing When They Found Themselves Without Sufficient Money To Pay For Food A Self-Absorbed And Independent Youth, Jefferies Spent Much Of His Time Walking Through The Countryside Around Coate And Along The Wide Chalk Expanses Of The Marlborough Downs He Regularly Visited Burderop Woods And Liddington Hill Near His Home And On Longer Trips Explored Savernake Forest And The Stretch Of The Downs To The East, Where The Famous White Horse Is Engraved In The Hillside Above Uffington His Favourite Haunt Was Liddington Hill, A Height Crowned With An Ancient Fort Commanding Superb Views Of The North Wiltshire Plain And The Downs It Was On The Summit Of Liddington At The Age Of About Eighteen, As He Relates In The Story Of My Heart, That His Unusual Sensitivity To Nature Began To Induce In Him A Powerful Inner Awakening - A Desire For A Larger Existence Or Reality Which He Termed 'Soul Life' Wherever He Went In The Countryside He Found Himself In Awe Of The Beauty And Tranquillity Of The Natural World; Not Only The Trees, Flowers And Animals, But Also The Sun, The Stars And The Entire Cosmos Seemed To Him To Be Filled With An Inexpressible Sense Of Magic And Meaning Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2017-06-11Weight:0.68 lbsDimensions:0.32'' H x 10'' L x 7.99'' WNumber of Pages:148Language:English
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Book Title: Field and Hedgerow (1889). by: Richard Jefferies : John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) Was an English Nature Writer, Noted for His Depiction of English Rural Life in Essays, Books of Natural History, and Novels
Number of Pages: 148 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Item Height: 0.3 in
Publication Year: 2017
Topic: General
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 13.8 Oz
Author: Richard Jefferies
Item Length: 10 in
Item Width: 8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
