The Library After Dark

Natural History

The Natural History of Selborne

by Gilbert White

A country curate’s letters about the birds, weather and small creatures of one Hampshire parish, written over decades of patient looking. White noticed that swallows do not hibernate underwater; he is the patron saint of anyone who has watched one garden carefully.

The librarian
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text
Reading time
About 5 hr 40 min
Where to find it
The Sorting Room
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #1408. In the public domain in the United States.

Also on the Natural History shelves