1945-1946 Henry Williamson Nature Books

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Illustrated, Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Complete in five volumes. Limited illustrated edition. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece, full-page images, and numerous in-text figures. Written by Henry William Williamson, an English writer of novels concerned with wildlife, English social history, ruralism and the First World War. He was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 for his book Tarka the Otter. Illustrated by Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, , an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife. With an introduction from Sir John William Fortescue, a British military historian of the British Army who served as Royal Librarian and Archivist at Windsor Castle. This set contains: Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers, 1945. A novel describing the life of an otter, along with a detailed observation of its habitat in the country of the River Taw and River Torridge in north Devon. Although not written for children, the book soon became popular with young readers. The Lone Swallows and Other Essays of Boyhood and Youth, 1945. A collection of nature essays exploring the beauty of the English countryside, often through the lens of its avian inhabitants, with themes of migration and the swallows as symbols of renewal. The Peregrine's Saga and Other Wild Tales, 1945. A collection of sixteen vivid short stories, or nature essays, includes tales of badgers, raven, swallows, foxes, owls, humans, a mouse, a weed, and peregrine falcons. Exploring the stark realities of life as part of the natural life cycle. The Old Stag and Other Hunting Stories, 1946. A collection of nine short stories involving hunting and gaming, with titles such as: The Trapper's Mates, Redeye, and My Day with the Beagles. Offering entertaining commentaries on the hunt and the relationship between animal and human. Salar the Salmon, 1946. A novel following a five-year-old salmon during his spring run, as he enters the Bristol Channel and ends up in Exmoor. There is no humanizing of the salmon, no fantasy element, only a dramatic story of what could happen to a salmon as it pushes up stream.