The Amateur Poacher

by Richard Jefferies

Overview

This edition of the classic work on the early English poacher was first published in 1901. Contents Include : The First Gun The Old Punt, A Curious 'Turnpike' Tree Shooting, A Fishing Expedition Egg Time, A 'Gip' Trap Woodland Twilight, Traitors on the Gibbet Lurcher-Land 'The Park' Oby, And His System, The Moucher's Calendar Churchyard Pheasants: Before The Bench Luke, The Rabbit-Contractor: The Brook Path Farmer Willum's Place: Snipe-Shooting Ferreting: A Rabbit-Hunter A Winter Night: Old Tricks: Pheasant Stalking: Matchlock Versus Breechloader Conclusion. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473374676
Publisher:	Read Books Ltd.
Publication date:	05/20/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	218
File size:	429 KB

About the Author

John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction.Jefferies's corpus of writings includes a diversity of genres and topics, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction. For much of his adult life, he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The first gun; 2. The old punt: a curious 'turnpike'; 3. Tree-shooting: a fishing expedition; 4. Egg-time: a 'gip'-trap; 5. Woodland twilight: traitors on the gibbet; 6. Lurcher-land: 'the park'; 7. Oby, and his system: the moucher's calendar; 8. Churchyard pheasants: before the bench; 9. Luke, the rabbit-contractor: the brook path; 10. Farmer Willum's place: snipe-shooting; 11. Ferreting: a rabbit-hunter; 12. A winter night: old tricks: pheasant-stalking: matchlock versus breechloader: conclusion.