Products

• £19.99

  

  The Natural History of Selborne

  ‘The Natural History of Selborne’ is now available as an unabridged audio book download, and has a duration of almost 11 hours of magical listening.
  The narrator, James Taylor, has more than 40 years experience as a professional actor. His diversity ranges from Theatre in London’s West End, numerous television appearances and the voice of Rune Haako in Star Wars (The Phantom Menace). Even so, James regards ‘Selborne’ as one of his most rewarding challenges. He insisted on studying Richard Mabey’s biography of Gilbert White before producing a truly compelling performance.
  
  With the kind assistance of Julian Reynolds, Head of Biology, Trinity College, Dublin, this recording also includes Latin translations of everything noted by White in his incredible and meticulous observations.
  
  ‘Selborne’ is a unique listening experience.
  More than 225 years after it was first published it still reveals “The secret parish in all of us.”

  John Mayfield
  Producer / Director

  Find out more »

• £2.00

  

  Scott Centenary Pin Badge

  On the 17th January 1912, Captain R. F. Scott RN, Dr E.A. Wilson, Captain L.E. G. Oates Lieutenant H.R. Bowers RIM and Petty Officer E. Evans RN reached the South Pole. Their epic story and scientific exploration of the Antarctic continues through British Polar Science and Heritage Organisations. This pin badge celebrates the centenary of this epic event, depicting as it does the five heroes at the pole.

  Find out more »

• £4.00

  

  Selborne Priory

  It is reputed that parts of Selborne Priory can be found in the cottages and walls of Selborne, but where was the priory? Who built it and why? This book plots the rise and fall of Selborne Priory.

  Find out more »

• £4.00

  

  Gilbert White's Garden

  Gilbert White (1720-1793) is best known as a naturalist, as author of the famed Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789). He was, however, also a keen gardener and it is this aspect of White that is explored in the present Paper. Discussion falls into two parts; in the first part, an outline is given of the purposes and achievements of White’s overall conception of his garden; in the second part, the reader will find detailed analysis of white’s gardening practice and plantings.

  Written as a collaboration between Professor Paul Foster of the University of Chichester and David Standing, Head Gardener at Gilbert White’s House in Selborne, the paper offers a fascinating glimpse of a less well-known aspect of Gilbert White, one of the fathers of modern ecology.

  Find out more »

• £4.00

  

  Gilbert White's Birds Then and Now

  This, the third of the series of Selborne Papers, explores Gilbert White’s Role in the development of popular ornithology. It provides a fascinating account of White, ‘the man who started us all birdwatching’, setting his love and study of birds within the context of his life and his writings. Many of his observations are recounted in his book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789), and it was through this that he made his greatest contribution. By committing his observations to paper in readable and engaging prose, he opened a window on the natural world that has inspired countless others to watch and appreciate birds as he has done.

  Written by John Eyre, Chairman of Hampshire Ornithological Society, the paper contrasts the ornithological landscape painted by White’s eighteenth-century records with the situation found in Hampshire today.

  Find out more »