Sharp Eyes

by William Hamilton Gibson

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Paperback

First published November 3, 2007

About the author

William Hamilton Gibson was an American illustrator, author and naturalist.

Reviews

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, maybe I didn't fight my way through every word of this I-wanna-be-John-Burroughs-or Thoreau book of seasonal observation, but I did love Gibson's illustrations. The preface spread has a breath-taking trompe l'oeil of a bug crawling across the one page, while on the other, the author's spectacles look so real you want to pick them up. The frontispiece has a dragonfly shimmering with blue-green metallic ink, a brilliant touch of color in an otherwise black and white world. On the strength of those three illustrations, I had to add a star.

[Valory · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked this up at a used book sale right after I moved to Vermont in 1972. I loved it; it inspired me to go walking in the woods behind my house and observe things closely. New England flora and fauna were much different that what I was used to in California.

[Jim Booth · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting relic of the late 19th century's "naturalist" movement, inspired in part at least, by Henry David Thoreau. Naturalist, illustrator, and writer William Hamilton Gibson offers his observations of the New England woods around his Connecticut home. The book is heavy on botany and entomology, but Gibson writes in the congenial style of late 19th century American magazine work, so the science lessons are larded with references to poetry and philosophy that leaven the scientific descriptions and explanations....

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[Little Pearl · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have a beat up 1st edition of this one with spectacular lithographs! The writing is "flowery", to say the least,...but what do you expect from 1904?