Nature & Outdoors
Gamekeeper at Home
Richard Jefferies · narrated by LibriVox volunteers
4h 47m$1.99
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The English countryside, seen through its sharpest eyes. Richard Jefferies profiles the Victorian gamekeeper: his cottage, his craft, his poachers and dogs, and the field knowledge that no book could teach. You will discover the greatest of England's country writers at his finest, capturing a rural world hour by hour with a naturalist's precision and a poet's ear. Heritage countryside for lovers of quiet things. Open the sample like a garden gate.
Inside this audiobook
9 chapters
- 1Ch 1. The Man Himself - His House and Tools28m
- 2Ch 2. His Family and Caste32m
- 3Ch 3. In the Fields31m
- 4Ch 4. His Dominions27m
- 5Ch 5. Some of His Subjects35m
- 6Ch 6. His Enemies35m
- 7Ch 7. Professional Poachers31m
- 8Ch 8. The Field Detective; Fish Poaching35m
- 9Ch 9. Guerilla Warfare: Gun Accidents; Black Sheep32m
