The Gamekeeper At Home: Sketches Of Natural History And Rural Life (cambridge Library Collection - British And Irish History, 19th Century)
by Richard Jefferies /
2009 / English / PDF
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This book is a collections of essays in the style of reminiscences of a rural way of life which, though never idyllic, was by the 1870s beginning to undergo a period of rapid change
CONTENTS
I. THE MAN HIMSELF : HIS HOUSE AND TOOLS
II. HIS FAMILY AND CASTE
III. IN THE FIELDS
IV. HIS DOMINIONS : THE WOODS, MEADOWS, AND WATER
V. SOME OF HIS SUBJECTS : DOGS, RABBITS, 'MICE, AND SUCH SMALL DEER'
VI. HIS ENEMIES : BIRDS AND BEASTS OF PREY—TRESPASSERS
VII. PROFESSIONAL POACHERS THE ART OF WIRING GAME
VIII. THE FIELD DETECTIVE : FISH POACHING
