THE KEEN COUNTRYMAN'S MISCELLANY. By Peter Holt.

2012 1st edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Pp208. B/w vignette illustrations, bibliography, silk marker ribbon. Honey coloured boards, spine titled in gilt.

Following hot on the heels of the first two titles in this series, The Keen Countryman's Miscellany should be eagerly received by the many keen readers of The Keen Shot's Miscellany, and The Keen Foxhunter's Miscellany. (Our stock nos. 36039, 24962, respectively.) This book "provides a selection of entries about everything that the true countryman - or woman - would like to know. Here you will find all things rural, from profiles of great farmers through history such as Thomas Coke and King George III, to snippets about wood-burning stoves, vermin control, hedge-laying and wild cat sightings. Readers with a schoolboy mentality will enjoy pieces on blowing up wasps' nests, how to get fish drunk and rules for conducting a proper snowball fight." Essential information then! A thoroughly enjoyable bedside read or simply something to dip in and out of.