The great industrial city of Stirmingham, Jefferies explains with irony, owes its existence to a water-rat. From that comic origin he builds a novel of land speculation, disputed inheritance and violent death, in which the fortunes made from swallowed farmland and old hamlets draw rival claimants into a long-buried family history.
A rare novel by the great nature writer, satirical about Victorian money and progress. Download the free EPUB.