Henry Williamson is regarded by many as Britain's finest nature
writer. He was born in London in 1895 but his work is rooted in the
north Devon countryside where he went to live after being deeply
affected by his experiences in the First World War. He published
some fifty books, a mix of country stories, most famously Tarka the
Otter and Salar the Salmon, and autobiographical fiction, including
the fifteen-volume novel cycle, A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. He
died in 1977.
Jeremy Gavron is the author of five books, including The Last
Elephant- An African Quest, and three novels, Moon, The Book of
Israel, which won the Encore Award, and An Acre of Barren Ground.
'The supreme writer of the English countryside' - Christopher Somerville, Daily Telegraph
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