The Keen Countrymans Miscellany is a selection of entries on 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 like Thomas Coke & King George III to snippets about wood-burning stoves vermin control hedge-laying & wild cat sightings. Readers with a schoolboy mentality will enjoy pieces on blowing up wasp nests how to get fish drunk & rules for conducting a proper snowball fight. Other gems include advice on how to trap magpies with a dead cat a catalogue of racing trainers excuses & an inventory of wines that no self-respecting country house cellar should be without. Packed with a gloriously random selection of rustic ephemera this beautifully produced volume is the perfect gift for the countryman with an enquiring mind & a sense of humour.