Name: Outside Days By Max Hastings
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Outside Days: Some Adventures With Rod and Gun by Max Hastings

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 Max Hastings

Sir Max Hastings, author of numerous books including Armageddon, Going to the Wars, and Das Reich, was editor of the Daily Telegraph for almost a decade, then for six years he edited the Evening Standard. In his youth he was a foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television. He has won many awards for his books and journalism, particularly his work in the South Atlantic in 1982. He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism.

- Introduction - i: Introduction
Chapter - 1: Great expectations
Chapter - 2: Paternal blessings
Chapter - 3: Scottish idylls
Chapter - 4: Pointing and setting
Chapter - 5: 'Wind him in, then!'
Chapter - 6: The art of the possible
Chapter - 7: Not exactly Halford
Chapter - 8: Ireland in the rough
Chapter - 9: Limited rods
Chapter - 10: Running away to the river bank
Chapter - 11: Smoked salmon for break fast
Chapter - 12: High days and by-days
Chapter - 13: A few arguments for fox hunting
Chapter - 14: A taste of Alaska
Chapter - 15: Confessions to a gamebook
Chapter - 16: Not so pukka sahibs
Chapter - 17: Porridge and kippers
Chapter - 18: Grouse fever
Chapter - 19: The sporting wife
Chapter - 20: In praise of the yeoman dog
Chapter - 21: A stalk without a stalker
Chapter - 22: The Tweed 'auxiliary'
Chapter - 23: Guineas and tigers
Chapter - 24: Duck soup
Chapter - 25: Long Pond
Chapter - 26: A shoot in the shires
Chapter - 27: Bag and baggage
Chapter - 28: Hit and miss in Argyll
Chapter - 29: Reflections on a December pheasant peg
Chapter - 30: Chancing a snipe
Chapter - 31: Literary diversions
Chapter - 32: Unsporting occasions
Chapter - 33: Back-end day
Chapter - 34: A future for field sports

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GOR004373642

ISBN 13

9780330513661

ISBN 10

0330513664

Title

Outside Days: Some Adventures With Rod and Gun by Max Hastings

Author

Max Hastings

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Year published

20100820

Number of pages

224

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