THE QUIET FIELDS. By 'BB'. Illustrated by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford, A.R.C.A., F.R.S.A.

1981 1st edition. 8vo (137 x 222mm). Pp206. B/w scraperboard illustrations by the author. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

BB's diary of a year in the countryside. "This book might be termed the weekly diary of an idle man, one who has nothing better to do than jot down descriptions of a full year's rambling in the woods and fields; descriptions of the most trivial things, such as a passing effect of light, the shapes of ripples in a pond, dark trees against the sky at evening, all commonplace things which perhaps a great number of people would not notice. Yet is is these little things which make the passing days of a field naturalist intensely enjoyable, the very stuff of life itself." (BB).