FURTHER COUNTRY MATTERS. By Duff Hart-Davis.

1992 1st edition. 8vo (154 x 227mm). Pp183. B/w illustrations. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

A nice collection of topical countryside essays reprinted from Duff Hart Davis's weekly "Country Matters" column in The Independent. The sixty-one chapters are arranged seasonally, from January to December. Articles include: Dawn on the Downs; An Elephant for the Garden; Avebury Revealed; Bores of the Year ...and Boars for the Table; Heseltine and Hot Air; Dam and Blast!; Cut-throat Elvering; Sir Vauncey's Passion; Bubbling Blackcock; Jarkemen and Patricoes; Man with Swinging Rods; Stallions on The Steppes; Out with the Rat Lady; In Merlin Country; On a Cornish Farm; Giants of The Forest; Wild Life Artists; Saving The Nene; Curse of The Highlands; Raiding the Bees; The Nippiest Whippets; Stone Walling; Sheepish Champion; Norfolk Beefings; Roots in the Chalk; Defending your Acres; Too Many Walkers; A Place in the Forest; Bats in the Bomb-Bays; Powers of the Fox.