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Fieldsports, Foraging and Terrible Ordeals
£4.70
Ideal addition to the Downstairs Loo Library
This is a book of parts. Part tongue-in-cheek field guide, part comic memoire and country yearbook. It’s also a chronicle of calamities – of those unexpected events and terrible ordeals that can occur when you are out and about, just trying to enjoy life.
Set over the course of 12 months, covering everything from driven pheasant, fishing in the Pyrenees, goose shooting in Scotland, boar hunting in France and foraging for food on freezing beaches in the 1970s.
Some anecdotes have previously appeared in the longer book ‘Life’s a Banquet’
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Additional information
| Publisher | Monster Books (12 Nov. 2023) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 4172 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 83 pages |
by Tri Jules
I bought both the kindle version and the hardback version. The illustrations in the hardback version are by the author’s son and are very good.
I stumbled across this book as one of the recommendations made to me and I am very glad I did. Robin writes very well and you canter through his childhood journey and head through his adulthood as the seasons progress. I had no idea it was possible to find so much of sustenance to eat in the English countryside, from winkles and whelks to rabbits! Robin even created a small BBQ in a wood in the grounds of his school so he could cook up whatever he had managed to get hold of that day.
The book is also thought provoking as it forces one to consider what we eat and where it comes from and the hypocrisy of some current commentators who have probably not spent 5 minutes in nature.
A good Christmas stocking filler.