The Country Diaries: A Year in the British Countryside - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847673236 ISBN 13: 9781847673237

Publisher: Canongate UK, 2009

Synopsis

The unique beauty of the British countryside has been celebrated down the ages in music, poetry, and art. It has also been celebrated in countless private diaries. This delightful treasury gathers together the very finest from Rev. Gilbert White’s journal of life at his famous home in Selborne to Beatrix Potter’s holiday diaries from Perthshire. Elsewhere, the thoughts of Dorothy Wordsworth and John Fowles rub shoulders with the words of Queen Victoria, Siegfried Sassoon, and Roger Deakin. Together, these private records, which have been arranged as a diary of the calendar year, paint a rich and surprising portrait of both a landscape and a way of life.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Taylor is a journalist, the editor of the Scottish Review of Books, and the associate editor of the Sunday Herald. He is the coeditor of The Assassin’s Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists.

Review:

"This remarkable anthology includes entries from more than 170 diarists and is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive ever compiled. Ten years in the making . . . pays tribute to a fascinating genre . . . magnificent."  —Washington Post on The Assassin's Cloak

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate UK
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1847673236
• ISBN 13: 9781847673237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Taylor Alan