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The Legacy Sir Peter Scott And Wildfowl Conservation
MAKE the boy interested in natural history if you can… Guard him against indolence,’ wrote Capt Robert Scott in his last letter to his wife. Peter Scott (1909–89) was only two when his father perished in Antarctica in 1912, but that small boy grew up
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Letters To The Editor
YOU suggest that Jerusalem was written from Felpham, West Sussex, where William Blake (right) was living at the time (‘A celebration of local pride’, May 1). Local belief is that Blake composed the poem when gazing over the South Downs towards the Tr
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Athena
FOR the Frontispiece of COUNTRY LIFE on July 3, 1920, Mrs Edward Hussey was not photographed in a studio, but at her home, seated on a balustrade overlooking the ruins of Scotney Castle, Kent. There was a good reason for this departure; the architect

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