Resumen
Resumen de España agreste
Para quién es
For readers who love birds and wildlife, Victorian travel and field writing, and anyone curious about rural Spain, its hunting traditions and country life.
De qué trata este libro
Wild Spain is a record of hunting and natural history in the Spanish countryside. It was written by two Englishmen who knew the country well, Abel Chapman and Walter John Buck, and it appeared in 1893. At that time most British readers knew little of Spain beyond its cities and its politics. The book shows them a different country of marsh, plain and mountain.
Chapman was a sportsman and naturalist from the north of England who travelled widely and drew the animals he met. Buck lived in the south, at Jerez, and knew the land and its people from daily life. Together they describe birds and beasts at close range, and the country people who live among them. You will meet wild places, patient hunters and a keen eye for animal behaviour. Let us start with the two men themselves.
En este resumen
- 1Two Englishmen Who Knew SpainFree
- 2The Southern Marshes Teem With Life
- 3The Mountains Shelter the Big Game
- 4Country Ways and a Warning
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Two Englishmen Who Knew Spain
The book rests on the partnership of two very different men. Abel Chapman came from Northumberland and spent his life in the field. He shot, watched and sketched wild animals in many parts of the world, and he wrote about them with the care of a naturalist.
Walter John Buck was settled in Spain, in the sherry town of Jerez de la Frontera. Living there gave him something a visiting sportsman could never have, which was long knowledge of one landscape through the seasons. He knew the local guides and the rhythm of the year in the south.
Their joint work reads as the record of years of shared expeditions. It does not follow a single plot. It moves from place to place and from animal to animal, and each chapter holds what the authors saw and learned there. That mix of sport and close observation is the book's method, and it explains both its charm and its limits.
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Questions about España agreste
What is Wild Spain about?
It describes wildlife, hunting and country life in Spain in the late nineteenth century. The authors take you through southern marshes and mountain ranges, showing the birds and animals they met and the people who lived there.
Who wrote Wild Spain and when?
Abel Chapman and Walter John Buck wrote it, and it was published in 1893. Chapman was an English naturalist and sportsman, and Buck lived in Jerez in southern Spain.
Is Wild Spain a true account?
Yes. It is nonfiction, based on the authors' own journeys and observations. It mixes hunting stories with natural history writing and descriptions of the places and rural people they met.
What does España Agreste mean?
España Agreste is the Spanish form of the title. Agreste means wild, rugged or rustic, so the phrase means wild or untamed Spain, pointing to the country's remote natural places.
Is Wild Spain worth reading today?
It is worth reading if you like natural history or old travel writing. It gives firsthand detail on Spanish wildlife long ago.