Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
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The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.
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| Birth: | 1st December, 1895 |
| Death: | 13th August, 1977 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Novelist |
About
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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