Jefferies takes the country gamekeeper, often a character in his own right, as the centre of a portrait of English rural life. He describes the keeper’s house, dogs and guns, his war on stoats, weasels and hawks, the poachers he matches wits with, and the moles, rabbits and birds of the meadows, woods and streams under his care.
The book that made Jefferies’s name in 1878, closely observed and full of country lore. Download the free EPUB.