Books set in Hampshire, United Kingdom

Chalk downs and beech hangers: Gilbert White’s parish of Selborne, and the rabbits’ journey to Watership Down.

1 place, 2 books,

1972
Watership Down
1972 · Richard Adams · novel
A band of rabbits flees its doomed warren for the high downs south of Newbury.
1789
The Natural History of Selborne
Histoire naturelle de Selborne
1789 · Gilbert White · essaySelborne, Hampshire
A curate’s letters on the swallows, tortoise and beech hangers of one Hampshire parish.

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