Natural History

The Gamekeeper at Home

by Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies, a Wiltshire farmer’s son, describes the life of a gamekeeper on an English estate: his traps, his dogs, the poachers and the vermin on his gibbet. It is exact and unsentimental, the work of a man who knew every hedge. His After London, in which England goes back to forest, is elsewhere in the library.

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Reading time

About 3 hr 20 min

Where to find it

The Naturalist’s Cabinet

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #36948. In the public domain in the United States.