If you enjoyed Richard Mabey’s excellent Flora Britannica, here’s a
chance to catch up on one of his early works now back in print: Gilbert
White, his biography of the great 18th-century British naturalist. Put off,
he says, by the stuffy image of White as a great worthy it took a visit to
Selborne itself to change Mabey’s mind—luckily for us. Published by
Pimlico, £12.50, ISBN 01712665013.
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