Book description
A new collection of rural writings celebrating the pleasures of the
country life - in particular fishing and shooting - by the eminent
military historian and former editor of the Daily Telegraph, Max Hastings.
Max Hastings is known as a best-selling author of military histories
(The Battle of the Falklands, Bomber Command, Armageddon, etc.) and as a
former editor of the Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard, but his first
loves are the countryside and its pursuits.
Whether walking up grouse in Scotland, tramping through snipe bogs in
Ireland or catching salmon on the Tweed, this collection of articles and
essays will delight all those who share his passions.
There are also trenchant essays on some of the big issues facing
Britain's' rural areas: intensive farming, gun ownership, access to the
countryside and, of course, the controversial issue of fox hunting.
Praise for Outside Days:
'A marvellous book, enthusiasm is at a discount in our colourless age.
One warms to Hastings because he is an unashamed enthusiast.'
Raymond Carr, Literary Review
'A charming celebration of the country pursuits of hunting with rod and gun.'
Sunday Times Max Hastings studied at Charterhouse and Oxford and
became a foreign correspondent, reporting from more than sixty countries
and eleven wars for BBC TV and the London Evening Standard. He has won
many awards for his journalism. Among his bestselling books Bomber
Command won the Somerset Maugham Prize, and both Overlord and Battle for
the Falklands won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize. After ten
years as editor and then editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, he
became editor of the Evening Standard in 1996. A Fellow of the Royal
Society of Literature, he now lives in Berkshire. His most recent book
'Nemesis' is published October 2007.
