The Gamekeeper at Home

Genre(s): *non-fiction, Animals, Biography & Autobiography

Narrators: Andy Minter (1934-2017)

Number of Chapters: 9

Length: 4 hours and 46 minutes

Language: English

Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire Standard’ in 1868 and also started to write articles and pamphlets on various agricultural issues and local history topics. He is best known for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. This classic of English nature writing gives an idea of the life of a gamekeeper in southern England in the second half of the nineteenth century. (Summary by AJM)

Ch 1. The Man Himself - His House and Tools (Andy Minter (1934-2017))

Ch 2. His Family and Caste (Andy Minter (1934-2017))

Ch 3. In the Fields (Andy Minter (1934-2017))

Ch 4. His Dominions - The Woods, Meadows and Water (Andy Minter (1934-2017))

Ch 5. Some of his Subjects: Dogs, Rabbits 'Mice and Such Small Deer' (Andy Minter (1934-2017))

Ch 6. His Enemies: Birds and Beasts of Prey, Trespassers (Andy Minter (1934-2017))

Ch 7. Professional Poachers, The Art of Wiring Game (Andy Minter (1934-2017))

Ch 8. The Field Detective, Fish Poaching (Andy Minter (1934-2017))

Ch 9. Guerilla Warfare, Gun Accidents, Black Sheep (Andy Minter (1934-2017))

The audiobook The Gamekeeper at Home falls under the genres of *non-fiction, Animals, Biography & Autobiography. It is written by Richard Jefferies.

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