White has often been seen as an amateur 'country writer', especially by the scientific community. So 'The white-throat uses odd jerks and gesticulations over the tops of hedges and bushes' and 'Woodpeckers fly volatu undosu, opening and closing their wings at every stroke, and so are always rising and falling in curves. It was long held, probably apocryphally, to be the fourth-most published book in the English language after the Bible, the works of Shakespeare, and John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress White's biographer, Richard Mabey, praises White's expressiveness: What is striking is the way Gilbert often arranges his sentence structure to echo the physical style of a bird's flight. The book has been continuously in print since its first publication. Daines Barrington, an English barrister and another Fellow of the Royal Society, though a number of the 'letters' such as the first nine were never posted, and were written especially for the book. This is presented as a compilation of his letters to Thomas Pennant, the leading British zoologist of the day, and the Hon. White is best known for his The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789). He is best known for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. Gilbert White FRS (18 July 1720 - 26 June 1793) was a parson-naturalist, a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist and ornithologist.
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