Written within a year of Jefferies’s early death in 1887, Besant’s memoir follows him from Coate Farm near Swindon through his restless teens, struggling years as a local journalist and the success of The Gamekeeper at Home, to his long illness. It quotes generously from his letters and from the prose about fields, birds and skies that made his name.
A sympathetic portrait for readers of English nature writing, by a novelist who admired him. Download the free EPUB.