Gamekeeper at Home, The by Richard Jefferies (1848 - 1887) LibriVox
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Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire Standard’ in 1868 and also started to write articles and pamphlets on various agricultural issues and local history topics. He is best known for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. This classic of English nature writing gives an idea of the life of a gamekeeper in southern England in the second half of the nineteenth century. (Summary by AJM)
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Ch 4. His Dominions - The Woods, Meadows and Water
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Ch 5. Some of his Subjects: Dogs, Rabbits 'Mice and Such Small Deer'
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Ch 6. His Enemies: Birds and Beasts of Prey, Trespassers
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