Step into the world of a country squire who builds a careful life around game, keepers, and a growing estate.
This memoir follows a deliberate plan to restore and protect game, while navigating labor, neighbors, and the craft of rural management.
The narrative blends personal ambition with practical detail. It covers choosing and shaping an estate, hiring a capable keeper team, and learning the habits of English game and vermin. Across the chapters, the author shares real-world challenges, schemes, and the daily routines of preserving in the countryside.
- How to select and prepare a large estate for successful game preservation.
- Close, firsthand encounters with poachers, traps, and countermeasures.
- On-the-ground tactics of keeping and overseeing a keeper force.
- A window into 19th-century rural sports culture and the ethics of preservation.
This edition will appeal to readers who enjoy traditional rural memoirs, field sports history, and insider perspectives on game keeping.