A BOOK OF WILD LIFE IN WESTERN BRITAIN BY ALFRED W. REES AUTHOR

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS From Drawings by Florence H. Laverock.

THE OTTER.

I. THE HOLT AMONG THE ALDERS.

II.

III.

THE WATER-VOLE.

I. OUR VILLAGE HOUNDS.

II. (2)

III. (2)

IV.

V.

THE FIELD-VOLE.

I.

II. (3)

III. (3)

THE FOX.

I. (2)

II. (4)

III. (4)

IV. (2)

THE BROWN HARE.

I. (3)

II. (5)

III. (5)

THE BADGER.

I. (4)

II. (6)

III. (6)

IV. (3)

V. (2)

THE HEDGEHOG.

I. (5)

II. (7)

NIGHT IN THE WOODS.

I. (6)

II. (8)

INDEX.

The Times.—“The quality which perhaps most gives its individuality to the book is distinctive of Celtic genius.... The characters ... are touched with a reality that implies genuine literary skill.”

The Standard.—“Mr Rees has taken a place which is all his own in the great succession of writers who have made Nature their theme.”

The Guardian.—“We can remember nothing in recent books on natural history which can compare with the first part of this book ... surprising insight into the life of field, and moor, and river.”

The Outlook.—“This book—we speak in deliberate superlative—is the best essay in what may be called natural history biography that we have ever read.”