Birds in Town & Village

by W. H. Hudson

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Birds in Town & Village is a book for bird lovers written by William Henry Hudson, an author, naturalist, and ornithologist. Some of his other works are The Purple Land, Idle Days In Patagonia, and Far Away And Long Ago.

Preface by the author:

THIS book is more than a mere reprint of Birds in a Village first published in 1893. That was my first book about bird life, with some impressions of rural scenes, in England; and, as is often the case with a first book, its author has continued to cherish a certain affection for it. On this account it pleased me when its turn came to be reissued, since this gave me the opportunity of mending some faults in the portions retained and of throwing out a good deal of matter which appeared to me not worth keeping.

The first portion, "Birds in a Village," has been mostly rewritten with some fresh matter added, mainly later observations and incidents introduced in illustration of the various subjects discussed. For the concluding portion of the old book, which has been discarded, I have substituted entirely new matter-the part entitled "Birds in a Cornish Village."

Books by W. H. Hudson

The Purple Land
Birds in Town & Village
A Traveller in Little Things

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