title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Spirit of Place and Other Essays | Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson, 1847-1922 | en | | The spirit of place -- Mrs. Dingley -- Solitude -- The lady of the lyrics -- July -- Wells -- The foot -- Have patience, little saint -- The ladies of the idyll -- A derivation -- A counterchange -- Rain -- Letters of Marceline Valmore -- The hours of sleep -- The horizon -- Habits and consciousness -- Shadows. | | | 1998-05-01 |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 | en | | | | Civil disobedience; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods; Wilderness areas -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods; Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Solitude | 1995-01-01 |
Creatures of the Night
A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain | Rees, Alfred Wellesley, 1872-1917 | en | | The otter: I. The holt among the alders. II. The pool beneath the farmstead. III. The gorge of Alltycafn.
The water-vole: I. Our village hounds. II. The burrow in the river bank. III. Wild hunting. IV. Saved by an enemy. V. The courage of fear.
The field-vole: I. Hidden pathways in the grass. II. The valley of Olwen. III. A barren hillside.
The fox: I. The last hunt. II. A new home. III. The cub and the polecat. IV. A cry of the night.
The brown hare: I. The upland cornfield. II. March madness. III. The chase.
The badger: I. A woodland solitude. II. Home discipline. III. Fear of the trap. IV. The winter "oven." V. Hillside trails.
The hedgehog: I. A vagabond hunter. II. An experience in snake-killing.
Night in the woods: I. Haunts of the badger and the fox. II. The Crag of Vortigern. | | Animal behavior; Animals -- Anecdotes | 2009-07-08 |
Essays | Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson, 1847-1922 | en | | WINDS AND WATERS: Ceres' Runaway -- Wells -- Rain -- The Tow Path -- The Tethered Constellations -- Rushes and Reeds -- IN A BOOK ROOM: A Northern Fancy -- Pathos -- Anima Pellegrina! -- A Point of Biography -- The Honours of Mortality -- Composure -- The Little Language -- A Counterchange -- Harlequin Mercutio -- COMMENTARIES: Laughter -- The Rhythm of Life -- Domus Angusta -- Innocence and Experience -- The Hours of Sleep -- Solitude -- Decivilized -- WAYFARING: The Spirit of Place -- Popular Burlesque -- Have Patience, Little Saint -- At Monastery Gates -- The Sea Wall -- ARTS: Tithonus -- Symmetry and Incident -- The Plaid -- The Flower -- Unstable Equilibrium -- Victorian Caricature -- The Point of Honour -- THE CHEARFUL LADIE OF THE LIGHT: The Colour of Life -- The Horizon -- In July -- Cloud -- Shadows -- WOMEN AND BOOKS: The Seventeenth Century -- Mrs. Dingley -- Prue -- Mrs. Johnson -- Madame Roland -- THE DARLING YOUNG: Fellow Travellers with a Bird -- The Child of Tumult -- The Child of Subsiding Tumult -- The Unready -- That Pretty Person -- Under the Early Stars -- The Illusion of Historic Time. | | English essays; English literature | 1998-08-01 |