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Gilbert White’s Disciple competition

star Win a copy of Gilbert White’s Disciple.
Last date for entries is Tuesday 30th September 2025.

Gilbert White’s Disciple competition

Thornbury author Sir George White has published a new biography of Alveston's Nineteenth Century pioneer naturalist, ecologist and conservationist John Knapp, together with the previously unpublished fifth edition of his Journal of a Naturalist - and we have a copy to give away.

For your chance to enter the draw to win the book, simply send us your details using the form below.

Revd. Gilbert White published his revolutionary Natural History of Selborne in 1789, an entirely new insight into the natural world. John Knapp was the first to follow White's successful format, publishing his Journal of a Naturalist anonymously in 1829. Knapp's work was an instant success and ran into four editions in Britain.

Knapp's Journal, based on his observations in Alveston, reignited early 19th-century popular enthusiasm for nature. His death in 1845 however prevented publication of a greatly enlarged fifth edition of his work.

For this biography, Knapp's remarkable life has not only been researched in depth and described for the first time, but by using Knapp's original hand-written notes, the author has been able to re-create the previously unpublished fifth edition of the Journal and present it here in full.

If you're not the lucky winner this time, you can click here to buy a copy.

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Last date for entries is Tuesday 30th September 2025. Good luck!






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