More Edward Thomas Find!

Edward Thomas's classic account of a year spent wandering across the south of England naturally embraces Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Wiltshire. However, this treasured book is more about his beloved Hampshire than any other part of the south. Not surprisingly, given that he lived near Petersfield. Always short of money, Thomas wrote 'The South Country' between writing reviews and working for a royal commission on Welsh Monuments, and it is somewhat episodic in structure. However, one of the episodes is as close to autobiography as anything he wrote, with the 'Return to Nature' being a self-portrait of a shy and joyful man who delighted in the natural world about him. Interestingly, a new edition of 'The South Country' has just been published by Dovecote Press, with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane, to mark the centenary of its first publication in 1909.

28 September 2009 from Friday Next

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