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THE SOUTH COUNTRY
THE HEART OF ENGLANDSERIES
This Series opens with a new work by Mr.Edward Thomas, that curious and enthusiasticexplorer of the English Countryside, whoseprose style gives him a claim to be regardedas the successor, as he is the biographer, ofRichard Jefferies. The Series includes a newedition of Mr. Thomas’s other work, “TheHeart of England,” and Mr. Hilaire Belloc’s“The Historic Thames.” These twovolumes were originally issued in limitededitions at one Guinea net per volume.
THE SOUTH COUNTRY. ByEdward Thomas. Small crown 8vo.3s. 6d. net.
Mr. Thomas in this new book gives hisimpressions of a year’s wanderings afoot asthe seasons change through Kent, Sussex,Hampshire, Wiltshire and Cornwall. It is aprose-poem of the most beautiful counties inEngland.
THE HEART OF ENGLAND.By Edward Thomas. Small crown 8vo.3s. 6d. net.
THE HISTORIC THAMES.By Hilaire Belloc, M.P. 3s. 6d. net.
Prospectus of above Books sent post free on application.
J. M. DENT & CO.
29-30, BEDFORD STREET, LONDON, W.C.
THE SOUTH
COUNTRY
by Edward Thomas
LONDON
J. M. DENT & CO.
1909
Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND
BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.
“As I can’t leap from cloud to cloud, I want to wanderfrom road to road. That little path there by the clippedhedge goes up to the high road. I want to go up thatpath and to walk along the high road, and so on and onand on, and to know all kinds of people. Did you everthink that the roads are the o