Rethinking the countryside
David Allen, 22 January 1987
The History of the Countryside
by Oliver Rackham.
Dent, 445 pp., £16.95, April 1986,0 460 04449 4 Show More
by Oliver Rackham.
Dent, 445 pp., £16.95, April 1986,
Gilbert White: A Biography of the Author of the ‘Natural History of Selborne’
by Richard Mabey.
Century, 239 pp., £14.95, May 1986,0 7126 1232 7 Show More
by Richard Mabey.
Century, 239 pp., £14.95, May 1986,
The Journals of Gilbert White 1751-1773: Vol. 1
edited by Francesca Greenoak.
Century, 531 pp., £25, November 1986,0 7126 1294 7 Show More
edited by Francesca Greenoak.
Century, 531 pp., £25, November 1986,
An Account of the Foxglove and its Medical Uses 1785-1985
by J.K. Aronson.
Oxford, 399 pp., £25, February 1986,0 19 261501 7 Show More
by J.K. Aronson.
Oxford, 399 pp., £25, February 1986,
The Oxford Dictionary of Natural History
edited by Michael Allaby.
Oxford, 688 pp., £20, January 1986,0 19 217720 6 Show More
edited by Michael Allaby.
Oxford, 688 pp., £20, January 1986,
“... it, some ten years later and much more lastingly, was the Stafford physician, William Withering. Aronson’s book is published this year in commemoration of the bicentenary of Withering’s historic monograph on the foxglove, which introduced the medical profession to the therapeutic value of digitalis for diseases of the heart – the first text in English ... ”
