Bücher von Gilbert White

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Als Georg Forster 1772 an Bord von Captain Cooks Weltumseglungsschiff ging, arbeitete Gilbert White schon seit über zwei Jahrzehnten fern von allen Akademien an seinen eigenen naturkundlichen Beobachtungen.Vor allem an seinem Geburtsort Selborne in Hampshire in Südengland, in dem er als Kaplan die umliegenden Pfarreien betreute, führte er Tagebuch über die Wind- und Witterungsverhältnisse. Er verfolgte die Jahreszeiten und machte sich präzise Notizen zur Selborne'schen Pflanzen- und besonders der Tierwelt. Mit dem Stapel seiner Notizen wuchs auch seine Sammlung von in Brandy konservierten Präparaten, die seinen Besuchern den Artenreichtum der örtlichen Fauna augenfällig machte. In der Tradition der englischen »Pastoren-Naturhistoriker«, die die zoologischen und botanischen Nomenklaturen von Carl von Linné füllten, machte sich Gilbert White an die Erkundung jener Landstriche, die er sich wandernd erschließen konnte: Weideland, Kreideformationen, Heiden, Acker- und Kulturböden, Tümpel, Weiher und Flüsse, Sümpfe und Trockengebiete. Seine Feldforschung im Allernächsten brachte Erstaunliches zutage: Er gilt als Entdecker der Zwergmaus als eigenständiger Art, hat als Erster Zilpzalp, Fitislaubensänger und Waldlaubensänger anhand ihres Gesangs als drei verschiedene Vogelarten unterschieden und festgehalten, dass Eulen in B-Dur schreien. Mit Anteilnahme verfolgte er das Schicksal ortsansässiger Arten: ob Krähe, Kuckuck oder Nachtschwalben, Grillen, Heimchen - oder auch die Schildkröte seiner Tante. Als ein mächtiger Eichenbaum gefällt wird, beschreibt er die Not einer Rabenfamilie, die ebendiesen Baum seit Generationen zur Heimstatt hatte; noch während die Säge ihr Werk tut, sitzt die Rabenmutter im frisch bestellten Nest ... Aus den Briefwechseln mit seinerzeit weit über England hinaus bekannten Naturforschern komponiert der Hobby-Zoologe White fast 40 Jahre lang sein Buch, das erst 1789, wenige Jahre vor seinem Tod, erscheint. Anders als seine längst vergessenen Kollegen fand »Reverend« White eine sprachliche Form, die seine Naturgeschichte von Selborne zu einem zeitlosen Klassiker der englischen Literatur machte. Nach Hunderten Ausgaben in Großbritannien und Übersee brachte es seinem Heimatdorf Selborne einigen Ruhm und Bekanntheit - heute ist das Gilbert White House mit angegliedertem naturkundlichem Museum Ziel von Touristen aus aller Welt. »Wenn der Autor auch nur einige seiner Leser anregt, die Wunder der Schöpfung stärker zu achten, die allzu häufig als gewöhnliche Erscheinungen hingenommen werden, so ist der Zweck dieses Buches ganz erfüllt.«

The Natural History of Selbourne is a nature history book that describes the bird life of England and the Selbourne area specifically. Here is a passage from the book: See, Selborne spreads her boldest beauties round The varied valley, and the mountain ground, Wildly majestic ! What is all the pride, Of flats, with loads of ornaments supplied ?-- Unpleasing, tasteless, impotent expense, Compared with Nature's rude magnificenee. Arise, my stranger, to these wild scenes haste; The unfinish'd farm awaits your forming taste: Plan the pavilion, airy, light, and true; Through the high arch call in the length'ning view; Expand the forest sloping up the hill; Swell to a lake the scant, penurious rill; Extend the vista; raise the castle mound In antique taste, with turrets ivy-crown'd: O'er the gay lawn the flow'ry shrub dispread, Or with the blending garden mix the mead; Bid China's pale, fantastic fence delight; Or with the mimic statue trap the sight."

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, or just The Natural History of Selborne is a classic nature text by English naturalist and ornithologist Gilbert White. It was first published in 1789 by his brother Benjamin. It has been continuously in print since then, with nearly 300 editions up to 2007.The book was published late in White's life, compiled from a mixture of his letters to other naturalists - Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington; a 'Naturalist's Calendar' (in the second edition) comparing phenology observations made by White and William Markwick of the first appearances in the year of different animals and plants; and observations of natural history organized more or less systematically by species and group. "See, Selborne spreads her boldest beauties round The varied valley, and the mountain ground, Wildly majestic ! What is all the pride, Of flats, with loads of ornaments supplied ?-- Unpleasing, tasteless, impotent expense, Compared with Nature's rude magnificenee.""Arise, my stranger, to these wild scenes haste; The unfinish'd farm awaits your forming taste: Plan the pavilion, airy, light, and true; Through the high arch call in the length'ning view; Expand the forest sloping up the hill; Swell to a lake the scant, penurious rill; Extend the vista; raise the castle mound In antique taste, with turrets ivy-crown'd: O'er the gay lawn the flow'ry shrub dispread, Or with the blending garden mix the mead; Bid China's pale, fantastic fence delight; Or with the mimic statue trap the sight."

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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

This 1795 publication, edited by the physician John Aikin (1747-1822), gathers together observations on flora and fauna through the four seasons, made by the renowned naturalist Gilbert White (1720-93). Following a month-by-month record of natural events, the book contains studies of birds, quadrupeds, insects, plants and the weather.

White's Natural History and Antiquities (1789) consists of a series of letters written to Daines Barrington and Thomas Pennant. The letters in Natural History contain detailed information about White's observations of local flora, fauna and wildlife while Antiquities is concerned with the topography, social, political and ancient history of Selborne.