Through the Woods
H.E. Bates's evocation of a year in the life of an English woodland has beeneprinted to make a suitable gift for gardeners and nature lovers. Bates hasn eye for every detail describing the sights and sounds of the countrysidend the endless variety of plants and animals as each emerges in turn withhe changing seasons.;The text is complemented by Agnes Miller Parker's woodngravings, from full-page evocations of a fox stalking its prey to tailieces showing a bunch of catkins or an owl against the night sky.;H.E. Batess the author of "The Darling Buds of May". Agnes Miller Parker is thellustrator of "Down the River" and "The House and the Apricot".