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Max Hastings' classic love letter to the great outdoors.
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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.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am not a shooter, or fisherman, or rider to hounds (or otherwise, to be fair). Yet I enjoyed reading Max Hastings Outside Days, despite at times being aware how little of the language I understood. How many is a brace of partridges? What intracies am I missing by not knowing how to tie a fly? And there are a hundred other matters that I shall never learn in any detail. As a casual reader, I enjoyed the book - it is travel literature for men, I suppose. I assume a knowledgable reader would gain even more - or perhaps would be outraged and cry "piffle"!
While Hastings is better known as a military historian, there is none of that here. As the blurb states, these are quiet, contemplative pieces, each of only a few pages, talking about a hunting or fishing trip. If I were uncharitable, I would simply call it a collection of 25 year old newspaper or magazine articles - which it pretty clearly is, for the most part - but that completely misses the point: this is the perfect book to sit and read in a quiet moment, preferably in front of a roaring fire in a deep armchair.
This is an unashamedly masculine book, about killing things and (mostly off-screen) eating them, for sport rather than sustenance. Oddly, this is gentle and entrancing to read. It's a strange dichotomy, but it works, and this is due to Hastings' skill as a writer.
There is a final endnote to the book, a look (from 1989) about the future of field sports. With hindsight, this takes on a somewhat different reading. It is a shame that the author could not contribute a new introduction to this 2010 reprint, but that, I suppose, is publishing.
While Hastings is better known as a military historian, there is none of that here. As the blurb states, these are quiet, contemplative pieces, each of only a few pages, talking about a hunting or fishing trip. If I were uncharitable, I would simply call it a collection of 25 year old newspaper or magazine articles - which it pretty clearly is, for the most part - but that completely misses the point: this is the perfect book to sit and read in a quiet moment, preferably in front of a roaring fire in a deep armchair.
This is an unashamedly masculine book, about killing things and (mostly off-screen) eating them, for sport rather than sustenance. Oddly, this is gentle and entrancing to read. It's a strange dichotomy, but it works, and this is due to Hastings' skill as a writer.
There is a final endnote to the book, a look (from 1989) about the future of field sports. With hindsight, this takes on a somewhat different reading. It is a shame that the author could not contribute a new introduction to this 2010 reprint, but that, I suppose, is publishing.
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Travel literature for men
30 Aug 2010
Format:Paperback
I am not a shooter, or fisherman, or rider to hounds (or otherwise, to be fair). Yet I enjoyed reading Max Hastings' Outside Days, despite at times being aware how little of the language I understood. How many is a brace of partridges? What intracies am I missing by not knowing how to tie a fly? And there are a hundred other matters that I shall never learn in any detail. As a casual reader, I enjoyed the book - it is travel literature for men, I suppose. I assume a knowledgable reader would gain even more - or perhaps would be outraged and cry "piffle"!
While Hastings is better known as a military historian, there is none of that here. As the blurb states, these are quiet, contemplative pieces, each of only a few pages, talking about a hunting or fishing trip. If I were uncharitable, I would simply call it a collection of 25 year old newspaper or magazine articles - which it pretty clearly is, for the most part - but that completely misses the point: this is the perfect book to sit and read in a quiet moment, preferably in front of a roaring fire in a deep armchair.
This is an unashamedly masculine book, about killing things and (mostly off-screen) eating them, for sport rather than sustenance. Oddly, this is gentle and entrancing to read. It's a strange dichotomy, but it works, and this is due to Hastings skill as a writer.
While Hastings is better known as a military historian, there is none of that here. As the blurb states, these are quiet, contemplative pieces, each of only a few pages, talking about a hunting or fishing trip. If I were uncharitable, I would simply call it a collection of 25 year old newspaper or magazine articles - which it pretty clearly is, for the most part - but that completely misses the point: this is the perfect book to sit and read in a quiet moment, preferably in front of a roaring fire in a deep armchair.
This is an unashamedly masculine book, about killing things and (mostly off-screen) eating them, for sport rather than sustenance. Oddly, this is gentle and entrancing to read. It's a strange dichotomy, but it works, and this is due to Hastings skill as a writer.
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