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A fascinating portrait of country life across the centuries, as told by Britain's greatest diarists
The unique beauty of the British countryside has been celebrated down the ages in music, poetry, and art. It has also been celebrated in countless private diaries. This delightful treasury gathers together the very finest—from Rev. Gilbert White’s journal of life at his famous home in Selborne to Beatrix Potter’s holiday diaries from Perthshire. Elsewhere, the thoughts of Dorothy Wordsworth and John Fowles rub shoulders with the words of Queen Victoria, Siegfried Sassoon, and Roger Deakin. Together, these private records, which have been arranged as a diary of the calendar year, paint a rich and surprising portrait of both a landscape and a way of life.
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reviewed The Country Diaries: A Year in the British Countryside on April 02, 2018 The Country Diaries: A Year in the British Countryside
Simple observations, rich accounts, seasons stretching out across the counties. Taylor has pulled together interesting diary extracts, from the evocative to the mundane. There is talk on the weather and its crimes, creatures and their habits, hunts and their follies. Strange occurrences, human moments and haunting memories, mixed in with farming, gardening and bird-watching. Old, pagan observations meet the modern march of technology, Sir Alec Guinness hides in his kitchen and Dorothy Wordsworth admires the spongey coos of wood pigeons.
A book for country dwellers, who know the power this rough, varied landscape can have on the spirit.
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