The son of a social climbing father, this book describes two years in the life of Peter Hewett, when he was a small boy in the rural Hampshire of the 1920s. Against a backdrop of fluctuating family fortunes, he recalls a lost way of life and his discovery of natural history. This was a time when boys collected birds' eggs, butterflies and wild flowers with impunity and although such practices are no longer possible nor desirable it was this early obsession with collecting and classifying that led the author to cherish the countryside and to become one of its protectors.
- ISBN10 0712650121
- ISBN13 9780712650120
- Publish Date 10 October 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint The Sumach Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 223
- Language English