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The South Country

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By Edward Thomas
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A series of lyrical essays records a year of wanderings on foot through the southern English landscape, offering close observations of Downs, rivers, woods, villages, and lanes across counties such as Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and Wiltshire. Seasonal detail frames meditative reflections on history, parish life, old houses, fairs, and the rhythms of rural labour and children. The prose blends topographical description with personal impression, favoring atmosphere, incidental anecdotes, and a steady attention to light, sound, and weather. Occasional travel notes and historical asides enrich the portrait of a quietly changing countryside.

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Title: The South Country

Author: Edward Thomas

Release date: November 22, 2019 [eBook #60760]
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Language: English

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THE SOUTH COUNTRY

THE HEART OF ENGLAND SERIES

This Series opens with a new work by Mr. Edward Thomas, that curious and enthusiastic explorer of the English Countryside, whose prose style gives him a claim to be regarded as the successor, as he is the biographer, of Richard Jefferies. The Series includes a new edition of Mr. Thomas’s other work, “The Heart of England,” and Mr. Hilaire Belloc’s “The Historic Thames.” These two volumes were originally issued in limited editions at one Guinea net per volume.

THE SOUTH COUNTRY. By Edward Thomas. Small crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

Mr. Thomas in this new book gives his impressions of a year’s wanderings afoot as the seasons change through Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Cornwall. It is a prose-poem of the most beautiful counties in England.

THE HEART OF ENGLAND. By Edward Thomas. Small crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

THE HISTORIC THAMES. By Hilaire Belloc, M.P. 3s. 6d. net.

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