Park Life

The Memoirs of a Royal Parks Gamekeeper

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John Bartram was gamekeeper at Richmond Park, and custodian of its herd of deer, for three decades from 1986 to his retirement in 2016. In this memoir, he looks back to the devastating effects of the 1987 storm, describes the dramatic clashes of the rut, and discusses the balance to be struck between the needs of wildlife and those of the park’s human visitors. With a foreword by David Attenborough. Slightly off-mint

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