Henry Williamson is best known for a tetralogy of four novels which consists of 'The Beautiful Ye He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in with his book 'Tarka the Otter'. Henry Williamson is best known for a tetralogy of four novels which consists of 'The Beautiful Years' (), 'Dandelion Days' (), 'The Dream of Fair Women' () and 'The Pathway' ()/5. Henry William Williamson (1 December – 13 August ) was an English soldier, naturalist, farmer and ruralist writer known for his natural history and social history novels, as well as for his fascist sympathies. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in with his book 'Tarka the Otter'/5. Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson - www.doorway.ru A bestellar review of this slim, limpid classic, rich in empathy, rigorous in observation, and complete with a mosaic of illustrated quotations and original metaphors. A beautiful gift for nature and animal lovers.
Williamson gives a very detailed description of an otter's life, and that of other animals and birds in a very specific area of North Devon in the early twentieth Williamson wrote Tarka after the damaging experience of fighting in the First World War, when he retreated to live a hermit-like existence in. Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson is in the middle of the pack. It's readable, if not incandescently so, and it's frequently moving in its evocation of the English countryside. It's probably the best book you can write about an otter. The story is simple and not very consequential. Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter follows Tarka's life from birth to death, hunting, mating, playing and fighting. Tarka is not like Watership Down or any number of other books about talking animals; the animals do not talk and are really no more than animals.
TARKA THE OTTER by Henry Williamson - Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe. Published by Putnam Co. Ltd. Hardback, green cloth on boards with dark green lettering to spine and gilt motif to front. The book is in very good condition - pages are clean and binding is tight. The jacket is in good+ to. Tarka The Otter His Joyful Water Life And Death In The Country Of The Two Rivers|Henry Williamson, Uncle Sams Boys in the Philippines Classic Reprint|H Irving Hancock, ORIGINAL ESSAYS AND SELECTIONS ON AGRICULTURE HORTICULTURE RUAL AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS|Anonymous, Pollination Ecology and Evolution in Compositae Asteraceae|M S Mani. Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers is a novel by Henry Williamson, first published in by G.P. Putnam's Sons with an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue. It won the Hawthornden Prize in , and has never been out of print since its first publication.
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