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Timothy, a watchful and eloquent tortoise, has spent some forty years
amongst humans, living in their midst in the lovely Hampshire village
of Selborne, the occasional object of study for his host, Gilbert White,
whose letters famously comprise A Natural History of Selborne. But Timothy
is inclined to study too. His observations of the natural world |
that surrounds him can match those of his master for aptness, precision,
illumination and beauty - his gaze falls with equal aplomb on the flitting
martins and swallows, trooping frogs, mating harvest mice, hares nibbling
at the cabbage and, above all, on those 'tottering, stilt-gaited beasts'
who tower over Timothy and make their odd ways known to him. Who would
guess that a tortoise marooned in the heart of old England could tell
us so much?
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