The New Forest: its history and its scenery. by: John Richard de Capel Wise. Illustrated by: Walter Crane ( With 63 illustrations) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781540764119)

John Richard de Capel Wise (1831-1 April 1890) was a writer and natural historian. Although he wrote on Shakespeare and other subjects, his most successful work was his 1862 book The New Forest: its History and its Scenery, which describes the scenery, the natural history, the antiquities, and the dialect of the New Forest, in Hampshire, England.Wise was born in 1831, and was the eldest son of John Robert Wise, (a former British consul-general in Sweden) and his wife Jane. He attended Grantham Grammar School, and then in 1849 enrolled at Lincoln College, Oxford. He took no degree, and left the university to travel abroad. On returning to England he wandered through country districts, frequently changing his residence

Author: Walter Crane,John Richard De Capel Wise
ISBN-10: 1540764117
ISBN-13: 9781540764119
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2016
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.55d