Afoot in England
by W. H. Hudson
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About This Book
William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. He was born in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where he is considered to belong to the national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish version of his name. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms. He settled in England during 1869. He produced a series o...
Chapters (26)
- AFOOT IN ENGLAND
- Chapter One: Guide-Books: An Introduction
- Chapter Two: On Going Back
- Chapter Three: Walking and Cycling
- Chapter Four: Seeking a Shelter
- Chapter Five: Wind, Wave, and Spirit
- Chapter Six: By Swallowfield
- Chapter Seven: Roman Calleva
- Chapter Eight: A Gold Day At Silchester
- Chapter Nine: Rural Rides
- Chapter Ten: The Last of His Name
- Chapter Eleven: Salisbury and Its Doves
- Chapter Twelve: Whitesheet Hill
- Chapter Thirteen: Bath and Wells Revisited
- Chapter Fourteen: The Return of the Native
- Chapter Fifteen: Summer Days on the Otter
- Chapter Sixteen: In Praise of the Cow
- Chapter Seventeen: An Old Road Leading Nowhere
- Chapter Eighteen: Branscombe
- Chapter Nineteen: Abbotsbury
- Chapter Twenty: Salisbury Revisited
- Chapter Twenty-One: Stonehenge
- Chapter Twenty-Two: The Village and "The Stones"
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Following a River
- Chapter Twenty-Four: Troston
- Chapter Twenty-Five: My Friend Jack
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