Abstract
IN this latest volume from his pen Mr. Henry Williamson tells of life on a Norfolk farm during World War, taking as his hero a bird, namely, a hybrid pheasant. With the pheasant as principal character—it was seemingly a cross between the common pheasant and Reeves' pheasant—and such subsidiary characters as "Pertris" and "Pertrisel", the partridges, we see not only the wild life of this corner of eastern England but also the farm life, both human and animal. It is a tragic picture that Mr. Williamson paints, a picture of endless effort to cultivate the stern land, of despair and bitter frustration, of endurance and grim determination that win through, all depicted in the author's well-known vivid style.
The Phasian Bird
By Henry Williamson. Pp. 341. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1948.) 10s. 6d. net.
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P., F. The Phasian Bird. Nature 163, 195 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163195d0
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