Full Description
Combining the anecdotes of the living and the recorded stories of the dead, this book is a study of the professional gamekeeper. The author has also written several books in the Tales from the Countryside series.
Contents
Overcoming tyranny - Charles South; the world's oldest keeper? - George Pryke; Brideshead revisited - Stanley Ware; Their Majesties' keeper - John Clark; king of the gamekeepers - Harry Grass; from bird scarer to headkeeper - Len Macey; last of the line - Wally Fakes; the one-estate man - Bill Gill; everyone calls me "Foxy" - Frank Hunt; good times, hard times - Harry Ward; honest as the day's long - Harry Churchill; the farmer's boy - Leslie Buckle; mainly from the archives.
