Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk

Thomas, Sir Browne

Sir Thomas Browne, the great seventeenth-century writer, turned his curiosity on the birds, fishes and marine animals of his native Norfolk. These notes and letters record what washed up on the coast and flew over the fens, in the elegant hand of a natural philosopher. Early English natural history at its most literate. Beachcomb the seventeenth-century shore with a brilliant mind.