Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
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Birth: | 1st December, 1895 |
Death: | 13th August, 1977 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Novelist |
Henry William Williamson was born in England. He was an English army officer, naturalist, farmer and ruralist writer known for his natural history and social history novels. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 with his novel Tarka the Otter. He wrote other novels include: The Patriot's Progress, Dandelion days, The Dark Lantern, The dream of fair women, The phoenix generation, A solitary war, It was the nightingale, and Young PhilipMaddison.
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