The Gamekeeper at Home (Annotated)

The Gamekeeper at Home is a richly observed work of rural prose in which Richard Jefferies examines the daily world of the English gamekeeper: his duties, skills, domestic life, conflicts with poachers, and intimate knowledge of field, covert, and hedgerow. Combining natural history, social observation, and narrative vignette, the book belongs to the Victorian tradition of country writing while re...