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A Tour In Sutherlandshire: With Extracts From The Fieldbooks Of A Sportsman And Naturalist (Volume I)

A Tour In Sutherlandshire: With Extracts From The Fieldbooks Of A Sportsman And Naturalist (Volume I)

St John, Charles

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Travel GeneralGeneral World HistoryNature Writing

ISBN10: 9354506410
ISBN13: 9789354506413
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step into Sutherlandshire before the railways tamed it. Wild country, sharp air, silence. In this Victorian travelogue, Charles St. John records weeks of wandering, watching, and listening across the far north of Scotland. Drawing on the fieldbooks of a sportsman and naturalist, Volume I blends keen observation with the brisk pace of outdoor life: deer stalking narratives, days on moor and river, and the patient noting of birds, beasts, weather, and landscape. It is classic nature writing with a traveller's eye, rich in Scottish Highlands wildlife and the textures of Sutherlandshire Scotland travel, made for natural history enthusiasts and for anyone who enjoys armchair travel reading that still feels close to the ground. From lochs and heathered hills to the hush of dawn on the hill, his notes join classic Victorian travel and field observation. St. John's work stands as a touchstone of Victorian outdoor literature and a distinctive sporting and naturalist memoir, capturing attitudes and habitats from the nineteenth century Highlands with a candour later generations could not replicate. Collected today as part of a classic travel collection and a valued strand of any Scottish natural history collection, it offers both pleasure and provenance: a book to read for its immediate scenes, and to keep for its place in the lineage of British field writing. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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