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  • Tarka the Otter

    by Henry Williamson ...
    First published in 1927, now public domain in the US. There is no safety in nature. Tarka, an otter cub, grows up with his mother and sisters, learning how to swim and catch fish as well as how to be afraid of the cries of hunters and the flash of metal traps. Gradually, he will have to travel alone, occasionally with the female otters White-tip and Greymuzzle, who are always evading capture. They ... Read more

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  • A Clear Water Stream

    Henry Williamson Collections, #11

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Series Book 11 - Henry Williamson Collections
    Whether the reader is an angler, naturalist, country lover or simply receptive to Williamson's limpid prose, A Clear Water Stream embraces all these passions.The Williamson family moved to Shallowford on the River Bray in North Devon, England, in 1929. With his typical zest, the author set about revitalizing the river, stocking it with both salmon and trout, and building low weirs, thus creating ... Read more

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  • Tarka the Otter

    by Henry Williamson ...
    A classic of nature writing beloved by Rachel Carson, Ted Hughes, and Thomas Hardy.Tarka the Otter is one of the defining masterpieces of modern nature writing, a model for books like J. A. Baker’s The Peregrine that seek to transcend the boundaries between the human and the animal worlds. Henry Williamson’s tale of the struggle for survival draws on his years of observing otters in the wild. It ... Read more

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  • The Lone Swallows

    by Henry Williamson ...
    "The Lone Swallows" by Henry Williamson is a poignant exploration of nature and the human condition, set against the backdrop of the English countryside. The narrative follows the lives of swallows as they migrate, symbolizing freedom and the cyclical nature of life. Williamson's lyrical prose captures the beauty of the natural world, intertwining the lives of the birds with the experiences of the ... Read more

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  • The Lone Swallows

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Along the trackless and uncharted airlines from the southern sun they came, a lone pair of swallows, arriving with weakly and uncertain flight from over the wastes of the sea. They rested on a gorse bush, their blue backs beautiful against the store of golden blossom guarded by the jade spikes. The last day of March had just blown with the wind into eternity. Symbols of summer and of loveliness, ... Read more

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  • Genius of Friendship: T. E. Lawrence

    Henry Williamson Collections, #15

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Series Book 15 - Henry Williamson Collections
    'Genius of Friendship', long out of print, is a memoir by Henry Williamson recounting his friendship with T. E. Lawrence – 'Lawrence of Arabia'. This was a friendship through correspondence, for the two men actually met only twice. It had its beginning in a long letter critiquing Williamson's Hawthornden Prize-winning book 'Tarka the Otter' that Lawrence sent to Edward Garnett from India early in ... Read more

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  • Heart of England: Contributions to the Evening Standard, 1939-1941

    Henry Williamson Collections, #4

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Series Book 4 - Henry Williamson Collections
    Written originally as a way of paying off unexpectedly high bills during his early years of farming in Norfolk – 'There was one thing for it: to pay off the debts by writing', he wrote in his farming classic The Story of a Norfolk Farm (1941) – these beautifully written articles by Henry Williamson, set in both Norfolk and Devon, are counterpointed and given immediacy by the inclusion of the ... Read more

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  • Tarka the Otter

    His joyful water-life and death in the country of the two rivers

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers is a classic of English nature writing, tracing the life cycle of a wild otter through the rivers, marshes, and farms of North Devon. At once lyrical and unsentimental, the book combines close zoological observation with a richly cadenced prose style that evokes the rhythms of the natural world. ... Read more

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  • Spring Days in Devon, and other Broadcasts

    Henry Williamson Collections, #14

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Series Book 14 - Henry Williamson Collections
    Henry Williamson (1895-1977), nature writer and novelist, is perhaps best remembered today as a 'nature' writer, the author of the much-loved classics 'Tarka the Otter' and 'Salar the Salmon', although he wrote over fifty books during a long life, including the 'Flax of Dream' tetralogy and his major work, the 15-volume novel sequence 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'. What is not so well known is ... Read more

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  • The LONE SWALLOWS

    by HENRY WILLIAMSON ...
    LONE SWALLOWS, THE by HENRY WILLIAMSON offers a concentrated, compelling experience within fiction / literary. This concise work presents carefully drawn characters and purposeful plotting that together explore themes of choice, consequence, and human connection. The prose is precise and economical, balancing vivid scenes with clear pacing to maintain narrative momentum. Ideal for readers seeking ... Read more

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  • The Lone Swallows

    Migration and Reflections in a Natural World

    by Henry Williamson ...
    In "The Lone Swallows," Henry Williamson weaves a poignant narrative that captures the delicate interplay between nature and humanity. Employing a lyrical and immersive prose style, Williamson explores themes of solitude, resilience, and the inexorable passage of time through the lives of its characters, particularly focusing on the titular swallows'Äîsymbols of hope and fleeting beauty. Set ... Read more

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  • Chronicles of a Norfolk Farmer: Contributions to the Daily Express, 1937-1939

    Henry Williamson Collections, #2

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Series Book 2 - Henry Williamson Collections
    Covering Williamson's last months at Shallowford in Devon, the family's move to a derelict farm in North Norfolk, the difficulties encountered by a total beginner to farming – including the disastrous crash in the price of barley in 1938 – and the opening months of the Second World War, these 45 articles written by Henry Williamson (author of Tarka the Otter and Salar the Salmon) for the Daily ... Read more

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