The Selborne Pioneer: Gilbert White As Naturalist and Scientist 
Subtitle: A Re-Examination
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780754607496
Subjects: Scientists - General; Natural history; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; White, Gilbert,; Selborne; Naturalists; Biography; Biography: general; NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; United Kingdom, Great Britain; White, Gilbert; c 1700 to c 1800; 1720-1793; England; Great Britain
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.