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PREFACE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2010

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Those who delight in roaming about amongst the fields and lanes, or have spent any time in a country house, can hardly have failed to notice the custodian of the woods and covers, or to observe that he is often something of a ‘character.’ The Gamekeeper forms, indeed, so prominent a figure in rural life as almost to demand some biographical record of his work and ways. From the man to the territories over which he bears sway—the meadows, woods, and streams—and to his subjects, their furred and feathered inhabitants, is a natural transition. The enemies against whom he wages incessant warfare—vermin, poachers, and trespassers—must, of course, be included in such a survey.

Although, for ease and convenience of illustration, the character of a particular Keeper has been used as a nucleus about which to arrange materials that would otherwise have lacked a connecting link, the facts here collected are really entirely derived from original observation.

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The Gamekeeper at Home
Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life
, pp. v - vi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009
First published in: 1878

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  • PREFACE
  • Richard Jefferies
  • Book: The Gamekeeper at Home
  • Online publication: 29 August 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511703263.001
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  • PREFACE
  • Richard Jefferies
  • Book: The Gamekeeper at Home
  • Online publication: 29 August 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511703263.001
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  • PREFACE
  • Richard Jefferies
  • Book: The Gamekeeper at Home
  • Online publication: 29 August 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511703263.001
Available formats
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