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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
About the Author
Preface to New Edition
Note on the Text
Introduction
Landscape with Figures: Selected Prose Writings
Part One: WRITINGS ON AGRICULTURAL AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS (1872–80)
Wiltshire Labourers
The Labourer’s Daily Life
The Gamekeeper at Home: The Man Himself – His House, and Tools
Village Architecture: The Cottage Preacher – Cottage Society – The Shepherd – Events of the Village Year
Hamlet Folk
Minute Cultivation – A Silver Mine
The Amateur Poacher: Oby and His System – The Moucher’s Calendar
The Hunting Picture: Its Defects and Difficulties
Part Two: NATURAL HISTORY WRITINGS (1878–86)
Rooks Returning to Roost
Wind-Anemones – The Fish Pond
A Brook – a London Trout
Mind Under Water
The Modern Thames
The Water-Colley
Trees About Town
Nightingales
The Hovering of the Kestrel
Out of Doors in February
Haunts of the Lapwing: Winter
Part Three: LATE ESSAYS (1882–7)
Notes on Landscape Painting
Walks in the Wheat-fields
Nature and Books
Absence of Design in Nature – The Prodigality of Nature and Niggardliness of Man
One of the New Voters
I
II
After the County Franchise
Shooting Poachers
Primrose Gold in Our Village
Hours of Spring
My Old Village
Bibliography
Follow Penguin
Copyright Page
Footnotes
Introduction
Page xiii
Page xvii
Page xviii
Page xxiv
Page xxvi
Part Three: LATE ESSAYS (1882–7)
Absence of Design in Nature – The Prodigality of Nature and Niggardliness of Man
Page 230
My Old Village
Page 298
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