Hound Dog Days: One Dog and his Man: a Story of North Country Life and Canine Contentment

Hound Dog Days: One Dog and his Man: a Story of North Country Life and Canine Contentment

by HarryPearson (Author)

Synopsis

A decade and one dog after penning the bestselling Racing Pigs And Giant Marrows, and inspired by the purchase of his new hound, a petit basset-griffon Vendeen called Little Man, Harry Pearson returns to the world of stalking, ferreting and beating with this ramble through the countryside. Harry Pearson was born into a dog-loving family and grew up with a variety of spaniels, terriers, collies and mongrels. He currently spends several hours every day running along behind a bassett-griffon pretending he really intended to go that way himself. Within these pages will be found anecdotes culled from forty-five years of living with dogs, wise observations on canine and human behaviour, historical tales of famous dogs, learned speculations on nature and descriptions of life in the real English countryside - a place where there are otters in the river, glue-sniffers in the woods and fisticuffs over fishing rights.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Edition: First printing. SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 04 Sep 2008

ISBN 10: 1408700573
ISBN 13: 9781408700570

Media Reviews
'Funnier than Bill Bryson' INDEPENDENT 'Pearson aims to unearth the exotic in very ordinary places and to make his readers laugh' MAIL ON SUNDAY
Author Bio
Harry Pearson is a writer and journalist who regularly contributes to the Guardian, When Saturday Comes and GQ. He lives in Northumberland.