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The Peregrine's Saga

(1923)
(Sun Brothers)
A collection of stories by

 
 
In THE PEREGRINE'S SAGA, the young author, recovering like many of his generation from the scars of WW I, escapes to the Devon countryside of a still rural England and becomes a wandering observer and chronicler of the intertwined lives of field, cliff and hedgerow.

"The non-human actors in these dramas ring true with the respect, love, precise observation and profound understanding a master naturalist and master craftsman brings to their delineation." --Donada Peters

This is one of the first books Henry Williamson wrote in a 50-year career as naturalist, novelist, essayist and short story writer -- a book that was to win him the Hawthornden Prize.



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