Record Number: 33926

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The natives call it Juancito—Little Jack, and all we have about is habits is a note by the bird collector Stolzmann, quoted by L. Jaczanski, in his third volume (Ornithologie du Peru)—the only work I know on peruvian birds [...] I daresay you have read Edmund Selous' account of his observations of the bird [the stone curlew] in "Bird Watching". I think the best account I have read of the bird—at all events the best written, is by Trevor-Battye in a little book of his called "Prose Idylls". Battye was a good observer and a charming writer but he is to lazy or too well off to do much.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1901 and 1909

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

William Henry Hudson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Aug 1841

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Field naturalist, author

Religion:

Protestant (Anglican) in childhood only

Country of Origin:

Argentina

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

A. B. R. Trevor-Battye

Title:

Pictures in Prose

Genre:

Natural history

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1893

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33926

Source:

Print

Author:

William Henry Hudson

Editor:

Denis Shrubsall

Title:

Birds of a Feather: Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson

Place of Publication:

Bradford-on-Avon

Date of Publication:

1981

Vol:

n/a

Page:

21

Additional Comments:

Letter from Hudson to J. R. Harding (a London actor interested in birds), 8 March 1909, 40 St Luke's Road, West London

Citation:

William Henry Hudson, Denis Shrubsall (ed.), Birds of a Feather: Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, (Bradford-on-Avon, 1981), p. 21, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33926, accessed: 09 October 2024

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Additional Comments:

See note 14 p.92 source text for ed.'s comment on title of this book.