Author : George Douglas
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267683024
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)
Book Synopsis Diversions of a Country Gentleman (Classic Reprint) by : George Douglas
Download or read book Diversions of a Country Gentleman (Classic Reprint) written by George Douglas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Diversions of a Country Gentleman Thousand feet in height, seemed to hang before us like a curtain, drawn to shut out the un known; and ever as we approached it, rising and descending, the solitude grew yet more intense. Even the sheep, which constitute this wild world's populace, though here not a numerous one, were at this hour withdrawn from the hill-tops into the valleys. Of grouse we saw but one flock; and even of smaller birds, such as the lark and whin lintie, ' by no means many. In the world of plants, which we studied in a desultory way as we walked, we observed nothing more remarkable than the Sphagnum, a grey moss, used by gardeners in growing orchids. Cotton-grass was somewhat scanty. Wild thyme, abundant and in flower, helped to fill the atmosphere with a soft elusive fragrance. That familiar hill-flower, the tiny yellow potentilla, looked up at us from the ground-level; and a row or two of the beautiful pink blooms of the heather-bell added the softening touch of 'grace and refinement to the rough scene about us - the diminished realm and last retreat of the long-dispossessed god Pan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.