Wild England of To-day [antikvár]

PREFACEThe wild places described in the following chapters are so differentranging from the Southern Cliffs to the Yorkshire Fen,as to suggest the question how their wild character and the wild life in them has been so generally preserved ?Some, such as the Culver Cliffs, are in a measure self-protected. Some, like Abbotsbury Swannery or Blenheim Lake, are choice spots, which only pass from the possession of one great proprietor to another, and are preserved without change; others, like Christ-church Harbour and the southern estuaries, have natural features so attractive that rare birds never forsake them, in spite of disturbance. The Down country round " The Great White Horse " was always thinly peopled, and the change from arable to pasture has further reduced its human inhabitants. The Yorkshire fen is kept quiet by want of roads and