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Author(s): Hudson, William Henry
Reader(s): Jason, Neville
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0091
Barcode: 9781843795964
Release Date: 12/2012
HUDSON, W.H.: Birds in Town and Village (Unabridged)
William Henry Hudson was a founding member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Though born in Argentina, Hudson came to England in 1874, where he remained until his death in 1922. Absorbed by nature, and in particular by the lives and activities of birds, his acute observations on wildlife led to some charming books which helped establish the pastime of bird watching. Birds in Town and Village is one of his classics. It is a truly engaging rumination on birds, as he watched them go about their daily lives. It is unfailingly charming, and read with an easy, relaxed tone by Neville Jason.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Hudson, William Henry - Author
Jason, Neville (Reader)
|  | 1 | Introduction | 03:05 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | Chapter 1: Birds in Town and Village | 05:51 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | Chapter 2 | 07:03 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | On my second day at the village it happened to be raining… | 07:55 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | Chapter 3 | 09:50 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | All these corvine birds, which the gamekeeper pursues… | 07:00 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | One of the first birds I went out to seek… | 07:25 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | Chapter 4 | 07:46 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 9 | The unsullied beauty and solitariness of this spot… | 07:00 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 10 | The tree-pipit has a comparatively short song… | 04:22 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 11 | Chapter 5 | 05:03 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 12 | But where, during the days when the vociferous cuckoo… | 07:08 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | At length during this period there occurred an event… | 08:48 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | Later on I saw it again on half-a-dozen occasions… | 11:12 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | Chapter 6 | 06:42 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | All those birds that had finished rearing their young… | 09:02 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | Chapter 7 | 08:54 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | To return to my experience on the common. | 08:30 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | As all or most singing birds learn their songs… | 03:37 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | The most curious example of mimicry I have yet met with… | 07:30 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 9 | Chapter 8 | 07:07 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 10 | What I have just said, that the peculiar instinct… | 07:23 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | I will conclude this digression and dissertation… | 04:18 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | Chapter 9 | 07:22 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | My colloquy with my enemy on the common… | 08:50 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | It is true that the local authorities in some country towns… | 08:02 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | How falsely does that man see Nature… | 06:13 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | It is the same in death from cold. | 06:50 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | Chapter 10 | 05:36 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | Chapter 11 | 06:19 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 9 | One morning in July I was in my sitting-room… | 05:00 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 10 | Exotic Birds for Britain | 09:48 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 11 | That these large kinds thrive so well with us… | 09:18 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | There is another point which should not be overlooked. | 07:27 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | When considering the character of our bird population… | 09:13 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | There is one objection some may make to the scheme… | 08:23 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | Moorhens in Hyde Park | 07:24 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | Such a fact as this – and numberless facts just as significant… | 06:39 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | Kew is exceptionally favoured for the reason mentioned… | 05:30 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | The Eagle and the Canary | 09:24 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | As I sit writing these thoughts… | 06:26 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 9 | After all, then, what a little I have been able to do! | 06:31 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 10 | Chanticleer | 06:19 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 11 | It was very dark and quiet when I woke… | 05:36 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 5
| | 1 | By and by I found myself paying special attention… | 08:30 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | To return to the ten cockerels… | 09:59 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | In An Old Garden | 05:16 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | That sad day of very small things for the sportsman… | 06:34 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | Greater than all these inhabitants of the garden… | 06:02 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | To return to the birds. | 06:31 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | That small song has served to remind me… | 08:27 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | Birds in a Cornish Village I. Taking Stock of the Birds | 06:15 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 9 | At the beginning of December… | 06:48 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 6
| | 1 | II: Do Starlings Pair for Life? | 08:18 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 2 | Until one observes starlings in this close way… | 07:35 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 3 | III: Village Birds in Winter | 05:05 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 4 | But for the poor starling there is little joy… | 04:38 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 5 | IV: Increasing Birds in Britain | 08:34 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 6 | The wood-pigeon is another species… | 04:07 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 7 | V: The Daw Sentiment | 08:15 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 8 | It has thus come about that of all the Corvidae… | 06:18 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
| | 9 | VI: The Story of a Jackdaw | 10:41 |
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 07:22:34