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

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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