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Beyond Spain’s cities lies a country of teeming marshes, high sierras, wild animals and patient hunters.
In Wild Spain (España agreste), Abel Chapman and Walter John Buck lead you through marsh, plain and mountain. Their account brings hunting and natural history together, watching birds and beasts at close range while tracing the rural lives woven around these wild places.
Chapman brings the eye of a naturalist, hunter and artist from Northumberland. Buck brings daily knowledge of Jerez and southern Spain. Together they explore wetlands near the mouth of the Guadalquivir, the wild estate of Coto Doñana and mountain ranges that shelter animals already lost from much of western Europe.
What you’ll discover
- Marshes alive with wildlife Explore the southern wetlands through accounts rooted in close attention to birds and beasts.
- Into the high sierras Follow the authors from open plains toward mountain country that shelters big game.
- Two ways of seeing Discover how Chapman’s field experience meets Buck’s deep familiarity with southern Spain.
- Life around the hunting grounds Meet shepherds, herdsmen and village hunters, with country inns forming part of the rural picture.
- Animal behaviour up close Share the patient observation that gives these accounts of wild creatures their appeal.
Who will love it
For readers who love birds and wildlife, Victorian travel and field writing, and anyone curious about rural Spain, its hunting traditions and country life.
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- Two Englishmen Who Knew Spain
- The Southern Marshes Teem With Life
- The Mountains Shelter the Big Game
- Country Ways and a Warning
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España agreste
by Abel Chapman; Walter John Buck · 1893
Chapman and Buck lead you from Spanish marshes to mountain rock, revealing wildlife and a country changing fast.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The author
Abel Chapman
1851–1929 · British naturalist and writer
Abel Chapman (1851–1929) was a British writer and conservationist born in Sunderland, England. He wrote about wildlife and hunting. With Walter J. Buck, he published Wild Spain in 1893 and Unexplored Spain in 1910. He later lived at Houxty in Northumberland, England, where he died in 1929.
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