The Confessions of a Poacher

John, F.L.S. Watson and James, active 19th century West

By night, in fields and woods that belonged to others, the poacher plied a forbidden craft. John Watson tells it from the inside, from a boy's first snares to poaching partridge, hare, pheasant, salmon, and grouse. A vivid, unrepentant window into rural England's shadow economy. Slip out after dark with the countryside's most wanted man.