Richard Jefferies recalls his boyhood on a Wiltshire farm, from the old gun that was burned and the first gun he owned to adventures in an old punt, tree-shooting and fishing, egg collecting and traps. He then turns to the real poachers, keepers and odd rural characters he watched at work in the fields and woods.
A classic of English country writing from 1879, full of sharp observation of fields and woods. Download the free EPUB.