Table of Contents of The English Love Affair with Nature

Front cover
Cover design by Parul Babbar, 2015

The English Love Affair with Nature

Introduction

1.1 White's Selborne
Illustrations in Part 1

Part 1: SMITTEN

1 Cupid’s Arrows


Part 2: VIRGIN

2.1 Birch Woodwart
Illustrations in Part 2

1 Origins
2 Mediaeval to Early Modern
3 Religion (Sample ‘Aside’)
4 Newton’s Universe
5 Collecting for Pleasure
6 From the Sublime to the Romantic
7 Industrial Revolution

Part 3: IN LOVE

Strata Smith's 1815 geological map
Illustrations in Part 3
(1-6,  7-12,  13-18)

1 Escape into a Good Book
2 Art (Sample)
3 Geology
4 Explorers
5 Collecting for Science
6 Pets
7 Cruelty
8 Hunting
9 Conservation
10 Birding
11 Angling
12 Gardening
13 Health
14 Class
15 War (Sample ‘Camouflage’)
16 Film
17 Nature Guides
18 Rebels

Part 4: TAKING STOCK

Drying Cepes for the winter
Illustrations in Part 4

1 Cornucopia
2 Conclusion

APPENDICES

Timeline
People
Bibliography
Illustrations
Further Reading

The English seem unemotional … except for their passion for nature