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Title: After London
Wild England

Author: Richard Jefferies

Release Date: November 3, 2004 [EBook #13944]

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AFTER LONDON ***

Produced by Malcolm Farmer

AFTER LONDON
or
Wild England

by

Richard Jefferies

Contents

Part I The Relapse into Barbarism

Chapter 1 The Great Forest

Chapter 2 Wild Animals

Chapter 3 Men of the Woods

Chapter 4 The Invaders

Chapter 5 The Lake

Part II Wild England

Chapter 1 Sir Felix

Chapter 2 The House of Aquila

Chapter 3 The Stockade

Chapter 4 The Canoe

Chapter 5 Baron Aquila

Chapter 6 The Forest Track

Chapter 7 The Forest Track continued

Chapter 8 Thyma Castle

Chapter 9 Superstitions

Chapter 10 The Feast

Chapter 11 Aurora

Chapter 12 Night in the Forest

Chapter 13 Sailing Away

Chapter 14 The Straits

Chapter 15 Sailing Onwards

Chapter 16 The City

Chapter 17 The Camp

Chapter 18 The King's Levy

Chapter 19 Fighting

Chapter 20 In Danger

Chapter 21 A Voyage

Chapter 22 Discoveries

Chapter 23 Strange Things

Chapter 24 Fiery Vapours

Chapter 25 The Shepherds

Chapter 26 Bow and Arrow

Chapter 27 Surprised

Chapter 28 For Aurora

Part I

The Relapse into Barbarism

CHAPTER I

THE GREAT FOREST

The old men say their fathers told them that soon after the fields were
left to themselves a change began to be visible. It became green
everywhere in the first spring, after London ended, so that all the
country looked alike.

The meadows were green, and so was the rising wheat which had been sown,
but which neither had nor would receive any further care. Such arable
fields as had not been sown, but where the last stubble had been
ploughed up, were over