The Annals of My Village: Being a Calendar of Nature, for Every Month in the Year

by Mary Roberts and Mary 1788-1864 Roberts

Book Overview

The writer Mary Roberts (1788-1864) developed an interest in natural history while growing up in the Gloucestershire countryside. This work of observations on wildlife, plants and the weather, though written while she was living in the village of Sheepscombe, near Painswick, was not published until 1831, some time after she had moved to London with her widowed mother and was a published author. Each chapter is devoted to a month of the year, and Roberts'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108076696
• ISBN13: 9781108076692
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"