Walking With Fancy

by E.L. Grant Watson, C.F. Tunnicliffe (Illustrator)

Can a mole be tamed? How many worms does a Robin eat in a day? How are fleas trained? Where can snakes be found? These and a hundred other such questions emerge from this absorbing collection of country sketches with a Sussex and Devon background, by one of our foremost field naturalists. But Mr Grant Watson is more than that. He is not content merely to record what he has seen in a long and wide experience: he is forever “searching an infinite Where, probing a bottomless When” for the key to the wonders of the universe. His sensitive and illuminating prose finds an ideal complement in the scraperboard illustrations of Mr C. F. Tunnicliffe.

120 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1943

About the author

Published under the name E. L. Grant Watson, Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson was a writer and biologist. Besides some 40 books he wrote a lot of essays and short stories.

He was educated at Bedales School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned a B.A. in 1909. Before his marriage in 1919, he travelled Australia, Fiji, Canada and Ceylon.

He was befriended with a multitude of writers and poets and his work spanned fiction, travel writing, nature essays and metaphysical and philosophical studies.