"Country Fair": The Countryside Companion: The Best from the 1950s Journal of the Open Air

by Constance Spry (Collaborator), Max Hastings (Introduction), Macdonald Hastings (Editor), Maxwell Knight (Collaborator), Max Hastings (Introduction), Macdonald Hastings (Editor), Maxwell Knight (Collaborator), Constance Spry (Collaborator), A.G. Street (Editor)

Synopsis

Here you will find advice and information on every imaginable country topic, from how to understand the behaviour of rooks to how to clean a shotgun, from when and how to prune roses or apple trees to how to deal with moles, from how to make a rock garden to cookery advice on wildfowl and salmon, hare and rabbit, and from understanding hedges to how to keep egg-laying hens...and much more.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 720
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Prion Books Ltd
Published: 03 Sep 2007

ISBN 10: 185375627X
ISBN 13: 9781853756276

Author Bio
Macdonald Hastings was an illustrious broadcaster, writer and journalist. A. G. Street was a well-known expert on farming and the country economy and BBC consultant and radio panellist. Sir Max Hastings is one of Britain's top journalists and military historians. He has edited the Daily Telegraph and the London Evening Standard, is a Guardian and Evening Standard columnist and has written books on D-Day and the Korean War.