A Keeper's Country by Jk Stanford
Alfred Blowers, DCM, MM, hero of the Loos campaign and more than sixty years a keeper reflects on his life and adventures in this fine novel. Apprenticed to a hard drinking keeper of the old school in Suffolk, he later moves to an estate in the far north of Scotland where he has to smash a gang of deer poachers who in revenge murder his wife, Bessie; always he has to battle with severe winter weather on the 12,000 acre estate where he works alone. Finally he is appointed head game-keeper on an estate in Wiltshire and becomes a legend among keepers for his long experience in every aspect of the keeper's art and his book A Keeper's Notebook. J.K. Stanford captures a way of life which remained virtually unchanged for centuries until social change, modern farming methods and increasingly ruthless poaching brought a new and more mechanised era.
J.K. Stanford, OBE, MC, (1892-1971) was educated at Ruby and St. John's College, Oxford. He served with distinction in both world wars finishing in 1945 as a Lieutenant-Colonel. Between the wars he was in the Indian Civil Service for much of the time in Burma. He wrote 27 books, mostly on sporting subjects and ornithology, and was a regular contributor to The Field, Shooting Times and many other magazines. He was for a period Vice-President of The British Ornithologists.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780948253379 |
| ISBN 10 | 0948253371 |
| Title | A Keeper's Country |
| Author | Jk Stanford |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quiller Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 1990-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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