Woodland, Field and Shore: Wild Nature Depicted With Pen and Camera

Excerpt from Woodland, Field and Shore: Wild Nature Depicted With Pen and CameraMakes it smile and speak and Open its heart to us, Mr. Pike does for universal 'nature. With light and pleasant touches he shows its beauty in all its varying aspect-s, throughout the changing seasons; for though he does not dwell on the winter, he assigns a chapter to the passing of it, and does not. Let it pass without disclosing its peculiar charm. He loves all that God has made, and has found it well worth while to spend hours at a time inpatiently watching, and accurately recording, the doings of some of the humblest denizens of wood land, field, and shore. The birds are his peculiar delight, and before we have read many pages we are in love both with them and with him. We can fully sympathise with-his eagerness to get a shot at them - with his camera.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.