The Selborne Pioneer: Gilbert White as Naturalist and Scientist
Subtitle: A Re-Examination
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Open Gate Press
Published: September 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780900001567
Subjects: Animal behaviour; Biography: general; Botany & plant sciences; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology; Scientists - General
First sentence: White's respect for small and 'insignificant' creatures - the hirundines and harvest mice, the field crickets and young frogs he studied - was both genuine and partisan.