The land's end : a naturalist's impressions in West Cornwall / by W.H. Hudson. With forty-nine illustrations by A.L. Collins

W.H. Hudson

RA Collection: Book

Record number

14/288

Author

Imprint

London: Hutchinson & Co., Paternoster Row, 1908

Physical Description

viii, 323, [5] pages, frontis. plate : plates, figrs : illustrations ; 23 cm.

General Note

"About a fourth part of the matter contained in this volume has appeared in Saturday Review and the Speaker." (p.[v]).
The printer is named at the foot of page 323: William Brendon and Son, Ltd., Printers, Plymouth.

Contents

I. Wintering in West Cornwall -- II. Gulls at ST. Ives -- III. Cornwall’s Connemara -- IV. Old Cornish hedges -- V. Bolerium: the end of the land -- VI. Castles by the sea -- VII. The British Pelican -- VIII. Bird life in winter -- IX. The people and the farms -- X. An impression of Penzance -- XI. Manners and morals -- XII. Cornish humour -- XIII. The poetic spirit -- XIV. Winter aspects and a bird visitation -- XV. A great frost -- XVI. A native naturalist -- XVII. The coming of Spring -- XVIII. Some early flowers -- XIX. The Furze in its glory -- XX. Pilgrims at the Land’s End -- Index


Binding Note

Blue cloth binding with gilt illustration of a mermaid on the upper cover and lettered in gilt on the spine: The Land’s End. Hudson. Hutchinson & Co.

Subject

Illustrated books
Topography
Rural life

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