The Amateur Poacher

Name: The Amateur Poacher
Author: Richard Jefferies

by Richard Jefferies

Essays about hunting, poaching, and rural life in the English countryside and village traditions

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Richard Jefferies

Jefferies was a nature writer and novelist whose lyrical essays on the English countryside and his remarkable spiritual autobiography The Story of My Heart make him one of the most original writers of the Victorian period. Bevis is a classic of boyhood adventure.

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BevisNovel of two boys' adventures and coming of age in the English countryside and natural world
Wood MagicNovel using animal conversations to explore a boy's imaginative relationship with nature
After LondonScience fiction novel depicting England as abandoned wilderness in a future post-civilization world
The Story of My HeartAutobiographical meditation on Jefferies' spiritual awakening through nature and mystical experience