White, B.

…English clergyman and naturalist. While serving as assistant curate in his hometown of Selborne, located about 80 km southwest of London, he was passionate about observing nature, and for about 20 years he continued to report his findings in the form of letters to naturalist Thomas Pennant (1726-98) and others. His work, Selborne Natural History (1789), a compilation of these letters, is a classic of natural history literature, combining a beautiful style with a sharp observational eye, and is also a masterpiece, along with I. Walton's The Compendium of the Angler, as a collection of essays by a recluse who retired from political strife and enjoyed nature. …

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…イギリスの牧師，博物学者。ロンドンの南西約80kmに位置する生地セルボーンで牧師補をつとめながら自然の観察に熱中し，その成果を約20年間にわたり書簡の形で博物学者ペナントThomas Pennant(1726‐98)らに報告し続けた。これらの書簡をまとめた著作《セルボーン博物誌》(1789)は，美しい文体と鋭い観察眼とを兼ね備えた自然史文学の古典であり，また政争から身を引き自然に遊ぶ隠棲者の随想としてもI.ウォールトン《釣魚大全》と双璧を成す。…

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