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  • Tarka the Otter

    de Henry Williamson ...
    First published in 1927, now public domain in the US. There is no safety in nature. Tarka, an otter cub, grows up with his mother and sisters, learning how to swim and catch fish as well as how to be afraid of the cries of hunters and the flash of metal traps. Gradually, he will have to travel alone, occasionally with the female otters White-tip and Greymuzzle, who are always evading capture. They ... Leer más

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  • Tarka the Otter

    His joyful water-life and death in the country of the two rivers

    de Henry Williamson ...
    Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers is a classic of English nature writing, tracing the life cycle of a wild otter through the rivers, marshes, and farms of North Devon. At once lyrical and unsentimental, the book combines close zoological observation with a richly cadenced prose style that evokes the rhythms of the natural world. ... Leer más

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  • Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter: A brief look at his Life and Writings in North Devon in the 1920s and '30s, the area known today as Tarka Country

    Henry Williamson Collections, #20

    de Henry Williamson ...
    Series Libro 20 - Henry Williamson Collections
    In early 1921 the young Henry Williamson, traumatised by his experiences in the First World War, moved from London to a tiny cottage in North Devon, seeking solitude and renewal. Here he began to make his name as a writer with nature stories and sketches about rural life and his early novels; and here he wrote the Hawthornden Prize-winning 'Tarka the Otter' which remains the book for which he is ... Leer más

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  • The Lone Swallows

    Migration and Reflections in a Natural World

    de Henry Williamson ...
    In "The Lone Swallows," Henry Williamson weaves a poignant narrative that captures the delicate interplay between nature and humanity. Employing a lyrical and immersive prose style, Williamson explores themes of solitude, resilience, and the inexorable passage of time through the lives of its characters, particularly focusing on the titular swallows'Äîsymbols of hope and fleeting beauty. Set ... Leer más

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  • Tarka the Otter

    de Henry Williamson ...
    A classic of nature writing beloved by Rachel Carson, Ted Hughes, and Thomas Hardy.Tarka the Otter is one of the defining masterpieces of modern nature writing, a model for books like J. A. Baker’s The Peregrine that seek to transcend the boundaries between the human and the animal worlds. Henry Williamson’s tale of the struggle for survival draws on his years of observing otters in the wild. It ... Leer más

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  • The Lone Swallows

    de Henry Williamson ...
    Along the trackless and uncharted airlines from the southern sun they came, a lone pair of swallows, arriving with weakly and uncertain flight from over the wastes of the sea. They rested on a gorse bush, their blue backs beautiful against the store of golden blossom guarded by the jade spikes. The last day of March had just blown with the wind into eternity. Symbols of summer and of loveliness, ... Leer más

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  • Green Fields and Pavements: A Norfolk Farmer in Wartime

    Henry Williamson Collections, #13

    de Henry Williamson ...
    Series Libro 13 - Henry Williamson Collections
    Henry Williamson (1895-1977), nature writer and novelist, remains best known for his nature stories set in North Devon, the much-loved classics Tarka the Otter and Salar the Salmon. Between 1937 and 1945 he farmed 243 acres of difficult land in North Norfolk, bringing a near-derelict farm to an A grade classification during the years of the Second World War. Throughout those years he was writing ... Leer más

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  • A Clear Water Stream

    Henry Williamson Collections, #11

    de Henry Williamson ...
    Series Libro 11 - Henry Williamson Collections
    Whether the reader is an angler, naturalist, country lover or simply receptive to Williamson's limpid prose, A Clear Water Stream embraces all these passions.The Williamson family moved to Shallowford on the River Bray in North Devon, England, in 1929. With his typical zest, the author set about revitalizing the river, stocking it with both salmon and trout, and building low weirs, thus creating ... Leer más

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  • Stumberleap, and other Devon writings: Contributions to the Daily Express and Sunday Express, 1915-1935

    Henry Williamson Collections, #1

    de Henry Williamson ...
    Series Libro 1 - Henry Williamson Collections
    Henry Williamson remains best known for his nature stories set in North Devon,Tarka the Otter and Salar the Salmon. His long association with the Daily Express, which supported him from the outset of his literary career, actually began without his knowledge, when his father submitted to the newspaper the letter that the young Henry, then a private with the London Rifle Brigade, had written from ... Leer más

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  • Heart of England: Contributions to the Evening Standard, 1939-1941

    Henry Williamson Collections, #4

    de Henry Williamson ...
    Series Libro 4 - Henry Williamson Collections
    Written originally as a way of paying off unexpectedly high bills during his early years of farming in Norfolk – 'There was one thing for it: to pay off the debts by writing', he wrote in his farming classic The Story of a Norfolk Farm (1941) – these beautifully written articles by Henry Williamson, set in both Norfolk and Devon, are counterpointed and given immediacy by the inclusion of the ... Leer más

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  • Indian Summer Notebook: A Writer's Miscellany

    Henry Williamson Collections, #10

    de Henry Williamson ...
    Series Libro 10 - Henry Williamson Collections
    Henry Williamson remains best known for his nature stories, Tarka the Otter and Salar the Salmon. This collection comprises a selection of Williamson's work from a number of sources, including book introductions; contributions to anthologies and magazines; a series of articles in the Evening Standard from which the collection takes its title; and two significant essays. The theme is one of people, ... Leer más

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  • The LONE SWALLOWS

    de HENRY WILLIAMSON ...
    LONE SWALLOWS, THE by HENRY WILLIAMSON offers a concentrated, compelling experience within fiction / literary. This concise work presents carefully drawn characters and purposeful plotting that together explore themes of choice, consequence, and human connection. The prose is precise and economical, balancing vivid scenes with clear pacing to maintain narrative momentum. Ideal for readers seeking ... Leer más

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