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The lone swallows
Henry Williamson
A lone swallow wheels over Devon on Lady Day, announcing the incoming summer. Henry Williamson writes the English countryside with a poet's precision: the haunt of the nightjar, a deserted quarry in February, vignettes of wild nature. Intimate, exact, and beautifully still. A gathering of country essays from a master of natural observation. Watch the swallows return and the seasons turn.
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40 chapters
- 1THE LONE SWALLOWS
- 2COMPILER’S NOTE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4THE LONE SWALLOWS
- 5LADY DAY IN DEVON
- 6THE INCOMING OF SUMMER
- 7HAUNT OF THE EVEJAR
- 8i
- 9ii
- 10A DESERTED QUARRY IN FEBRUARY
- 11VIGNETTES OF NATURE
- 12i
- 13ii
- 14HAWK NOTES
- 15PROPHET BIRDS
- 16A BIRD MYSTIC
- 17SAMARITANS
- 18SPORTSMEN OF THE RUBBISH-HEAPS
+ 22 more. The full contents open with the book.
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