Alfred Wellesley Rees

Writing in the early 1900s, Alfred Wellesley Rees is best known for Ianto the Fisherman, Creatures of the Night: A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain, and The Heron of Castle Creek and Other Sketches of Bird Life. The surviving catalog and library records consistently connect his work with western Britain and with closely observed studies of wildlife, especially birds and nocturnal animals.

A later edition of The Heron of Castle Creek was published with a memoir by J. K. Hudson, which suggests that Rees had already earned enough admiration from friends and readers for his work to be gathered and remembered after his death. Even from the book titles alone, his writing comes across as rooted in place and in patient watching—country people, coastal life, and the habits of wild creatures all seem to matter deeply to him.

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