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January, 2008
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Book Review

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature. By Linda Lear. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007. xix + 584 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $30.00.
Beatrix Potter's accomplishments went well beyond being the author and illustrator of the Tale of Peter Rabbit and other classic children's stories, to making significant scientific and environmental contributions. In particular, Potter was a leader in the effort to protect and preserve the landscape of England's Lake District. Her purchase of a Lake District farm in 1905 was the beginning of almost four decades of work as a farmer, sheep and cattle breeder, major landowner, and preservationist. Lear's meticulously researched book, based on a wealth of primary material, provides an accessible, straightforward, immensely detailed biography of this unusual woman. . . .
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