The Life of the Fields
eBook - ePub

The Life of the Fields

  1. 276 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Life of the Fields

About this book

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. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. This volume comprises of many of Jefferies's best essays and articles that were composed in the years after 1880, most were first published in magazines and journals.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Richard Jefferies
  5. Contents
  6. The Pageant of Summer
  7. The Field Play
  8. Bits of Oak Bark
  9. Meadow Thoughts
  10. Clematis Lane
  11. Nature Near Brighton
  12. Sea, Sky, and Down
  13. January in the Sussex Woods
  14. By the Exe
  15. The Water-Colley
  16. Notes on Landscape Painting
  17. Village Miners
  18. Mind Under Water
  19. Sport and Science
  20. Nature and the Gamekeeper
  21. The Sacrifice to Trout
  22. The Hovering of the Kestrel
  23. Birds Climbing the Air
  24. Country Literature
  25. Sunlight in a London Square
  26. Venice in the East End
  27. The Pigeons at the British Museum
  28. The Plainest City in Europe