Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from British Country Life in Spring and Summer: The Book of the Open Air
In our own day Nature has been used by many of the best writers of fiction as a magical background. It is hardly necessary-to mention names, but those of Messrs. Hardy, Meredith, Hudson, Cunninghame Graham and Conrad will at once suggest their diversity. And it is becoming every year more and more characteristic of our literature to study this background of inanimate nature and the animals for its own sake. Cowper's hare is interesting only because Cowper was fond of it and kind to it, Burns' mouse chie?y because it moved his passion but it would not be hard to point to passages in the work of living men where the animal emerges free from any human taint, grand, wild, with all its savage perfume about it, in the desert attitude, and with a spiritual quality not of the writer's but of its own. The typical modern writer does actually suggest in written words that violent shock of the beautiful but in human which we have when suddenly the tall hare leaps across our path, or the dog fox's bark on the Downs makes twenty centuries of civilization nothing.
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