For Sale: Epping Forest with Maps (1923 Ninth Edition, first published 1884), digitally scanned copy.
Epping Forest with Maps (1923 Ninth Edition, first published 1884) (Digitally Scanned Copy). NINTH EDITION REVISED, WITH CHAPTERS ON ITS HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, ANIMALS AND BIRDS, ENTOMOLOGY, FLORA, FUNGI, GEOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT, AND FOREST MANAGEMENT
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Author: Edward North Buxton (1 September 1840 – 9 January 1924) was a British conservationist and politician. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Buxton_%28conservationist%29
Published: LONDON: BLACKIE & SON, PUBLISHERS; 49 & 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C. GLASGOW, EDINBURGH, AND DUBLIN.
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Description: Language: English CHAPTERS ON ITS HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, ANIMALS AND BIRDS, ENTOMOLOGY, FLORA, FUNGI, GEOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT, AND FOREST MANAGEMENT. PREFACE TO NINTH EDITION: THE last edition of this book was exhausted in 1915. Owing to the Great War and the difficulties of republication I have hesitated to embark on another edition, but as the public have absorbed since its first inception many thousand copies, and I have had many calls for it, I have ventured on a new edition. Owing to the new facilities of transport and the enormously increased number who avail themselves of them to visit the Forest, I hope to appeal to a wider public. Those whose duty it is to manage the Forest are the target of numerous criticisms and suggestions. I have therefore written a chapter on the Management of the Forest, in which I have examined the debatable questions of policy and principles upon which the well-being of the woodland and its continued natural character depend. The number of those who study some branch of natural history within the precincts of the Forest is largely on the increase. I have endeavoured to give some directions for the guidance of these students, and I have been so fortunate as to secure the co-operation of Mr. T. V. Holmes, Mr. Henry Woodward, Mr. W. Cole, and Mr. M. C. Cooke, in those branches of science of which they are distinguished exponents. Since the first issue of this book in 1885, Mr. Fisher’s learned and exhaustive work on the Forest of Essex has appeared. To its pages I am indebted, and to them I would refer all who desire to study those ancient forestal customs upon which I have but briefly touched. I am also indebted to the late Mr. W. C. Waller, who has laboriously unearthed and translated many ancient documents which throw light on those laws and practices which have been instrumental in handing down to us our superb fragment of eatural forest. E.N.Buxton.
PREFACE: THE idea of writing a Guide to the Forest occurred to me when I observed how small a percentage of our summer visitors ever venture far from the point at which they are set down by train or vehicle. This is hardly a desirable state of things; and as steam merry-go-rounds and ” five shies for a penny” can be enjoyed with equal facility in London, it seems a pity not to encourage, as far as lies in one’s power, a more enterprising spirit. It appears that this reluctance to enter the thicket springs, not from indifference to the attractions of the Forest, but solely from a dread, not unnatural to those unaccustomed to the country, of losing the way; and I hope that clear directions how to find, and followr, the most beautiful and interesting routes will be appreciated. I trust I am not egotistical in thinking that, as I have lived all my life in one or other of the Forest parishes, and for many years have been in the constant habit of exploring its inner recesses, the public cannot have a better adviser than myself in this matter. I am aware that some excellent cheap Guidebooks to the Forest have been published; but they do not enter with sufficient minuteness into topographical details to serve as a handbook to the stranger who desires to penetrate the wilder parts of the wood. An essential part of my scheme is that the descriptions should be accompanied by correct maps of a scale sufficiently large to facilitate identification of the leading features. Taking the official map published by the Conservators, which is of the scale of 3 inches to the mile, I have divided it into sections of a convenient size, which, after careful correction, have been engraved with great care by Mr. Stanford, to whose manager, Mr. Bolton, my acknowledgments are especially due. To the Itinerary I added an historical chapter, believing that those who use the Forest would wish to know the influences which, centuries ago, made it what it is, and how it came to be rescued for their enjoyment. For some very useful suggestions bearing on this part of the work I have to thank Sir Arthur Hobhouse and Mr. Robert Hunter, than whom no men are better acquainted with the legal aspects of the question. I find that the most intelligent interest is taken in our woodlands by those who there pursue their studies in one or other of the branches of Natural History. Many of them are of humble station; but as members of Societies, which are very numerous in London, of botanists, ornithologists, fungologists, and microscopists, they are enthusiastic searchers into nature. I have therefore added some chapters on the different forms of life which they may expect to find in the course of their rambles. In this task I have been much assisted by such able naturalists and experienced observers as Professor Boulger, Mr. J. E. Harting, Mr. English, and others. Mr. Heywood Sumner has embellished the text with some charming drawings, some of which I hope will incidentally be of value in helping to identify the features and landmarks by which I have sought to point out the way. To Mr. J. Wycliffe Taylor and to Mr. Moon 1 am also indebted for some beautiful sketches, most truthful to nature, in the one case of birds, and in the other of flowers. I have also to thank my brother-verderers and
several of my neighbours for many valuable suggestions.
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