OUTSIDE DAYS: SOME ADVENTURES WITH ROD AND GUN. By Max Hastings. Line drawings by William Geldart.

Hastings (Max).

ISBN 10: 0718133307 / ISBN 13: 9780718133306

Published by Michael Joseph. London. 1989, 1989

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1989). 1989 1st edition. 8vo (155 x 240mm). Ppviii,216. B/w illustrations by William Geldart, photograph end-papers. Olive cloth, spine titled in gilt. Foxing to edges else very good in spine-faded dust-wrapper. Great expectations; Paternal blessings; Scottish idylls; Pointing and setting; 'Wind him in, then!'; The art of the possible; Not exactly Halford; Ireland in the rough; Limited rods; Running away to the river bank; Smoked salmon for break fast; High days and by-days; A few arguments for fox hunting; A taste of Alaska; Confessions to a gamebook; Not so pukka sahibs; Porridge and kippers; Grouse fever; The sporting wife; In praise of the yeoman dog; A stalk without a stalker; The Tweed 'auxiliary'; Guineas and tigers; Duck soup; Long pond; A shoot in the shires; Bag and baggage; Hit and miss in Argyll; Reflections on a December pheasant peg; Chancing a snipe; Literary diversions; Unsporting occasions; Back-end day; A future for field sports. .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: OUTSIDE DAYS: SOME ADVENTURES WITH ROD AND GUN. By Max Hastings. Line drawings by William Geldart.
• Publisher: Michael Joseph. London. 1989
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718133307
• ISBN 13: 9780718133306
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Geldart, William
• Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis

Max Hastings is best known as an acclaimed journalist and military historian. But what is perhaps less well known is his love of the countryside and its pursuits, above all fishing and shooting, which he indulges as often as he can escape his urban working environment. In this classic selection of gentle, contemplative musings, Max Hastings shares some of his favourite rural moments; tramping the snipe bogs of Waterford; dogging hedges in Hampshire and moors in Sutherland; casting a fly from Scotland to Iceland and Alaska; and shooting in India and the west of Ireland. Combining a journalist's knack for storytelling with the enthusiasm of the dedicated amateur, Outside Days is the perfect companion for anyone who revels in the freedom of the outdoors

About the Author

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 was knighted in 2002. He now lives in Berkshire.

CAMERON STEWART works extensively in both theatre and television and will be familiar to viewers of LWT's London's Burning as Station Officer Suffolk of White Watch.  His theatre credits include the London production of Les Miserables, Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show and seasons in repertory at theatres all over the UK. Other television work includes Coronation Street, Eastenders, The Bill, Silent Witness, Doctors, Holby City, Heartbeat, and Boyz Unlimited.