The King of the Norfolk Poachers: His Life and Times

The King of the Norfolk Poachers: His Life and Times

Author: Charlotte Paton

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing

Published: 2009-10-01

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1905523890

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the early 1930s an elderly mole catcher became the subject of one of East Anglia's best-loved tales of country life: "I Walked by Night". Over sixty years later, Norfolk writer Charlotte Paton became fascinated by this man and set out to find the truth about him, beginning with his name: Frederick Rolfe. Charlotte conducted exhaustive research provide a vibrant account with plenty of social history. This book is the biography of a difficult man who could inspire devotion but came to a tragic end.


King of the Norfolk Poachers, The: His Life and Times

King of the Norfolk Poachers, The: His Life and Times

Author: Charlotte Paton

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing

Published: 2009-10-01

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1913618080

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the early 1930s an elderly mole catcher became the subject of one of East Anglia's best-loved tales of country life: "I Walked by Night". Over sixty years later, Norfolk writer Charlotte Paton became fascinated by this man and set out to find the truth about him, beginning with his name: Frederick Rolfe. Charlotte conducted exhaustive research provide a vibrant account with plenty of social history. This book is the biography of a difficult man who could inspire devotion but came to a tragic end.


I Walked by Night - Being the Life and History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers

I Walked by Night - Being the Life and History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers

Author: Lilias Rider Haggard

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1447489780

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'I Walked by Night - Being the Life and History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers' by Lilias Rider Haggard. This is Haggard's brilliant view of poaching life from both sides of the fence. His unadulterated tales of the not too distant past may shock the 21st century reader with its slaughtering of anything that moved! This is an essential book for anyone with a romantic view of the English countryside and it's not too distant past.