COLLECTED NATURE STORIES OF HENRY WILLIAMSON

by Henry Williamson, C.F. Tunnicliffe (Illustrator), Broome Lynne (Illustrator)

Collected Nature Stories (The Peregrine's Saga; The Old Stag; Tales of Moorland and Estuary)

480 pages, Hardcover

First published December 7, 1995

About the author

Henry William Williamson was an English soldier, naturalist, farmer and ruralist writer known for his natural history and social history novels, as well as for his fascist sympathies. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 with his book Tarka the Otter.

Henry Williamson is best known for a tetralogy of four novels which consists of The Beautiful Years (1921), Dandelion Days (1922), The Dream of Fair Women (1924) and The Pathway (1928). These novels are collectively known as The Flax of Dream and they follow the life of Willie Maddison from boyhood to adulthood in a rapidly changing world.