The Far from Compleat Angler Culpepper

The Far from Compleat Angler CulpepperTom Fort, former angling correspondent for the Financial Times, is one of the most incisive and funny fishing writers in Britain today. This sparkling collection of his writings finds Tom at Ceausescu's bear hunting lodge in Romania, at a fishing auction in the Home Counties, being thwarted by a bunch of hard mouthed Brazilian dourado, on a press freebie in Scotland and in a terrible state on the Kennet not to mention conducting a fantasy celebrity

Here the horse is put to Stud and begins a long well-earned retirement

man as created in God's image and man as a creature doomed

Wayside Medicine is packed with practical information on the use of over 50 native plants as sources of herbal medicine

Foulkes addressed the crowd: 'You may in me see what sin is

Harvest and Make your own Herbal Remedies

as a young woman

to suggest 'ghost wings'

In Much Ado About Mutton

as an inveterate shooter himself

adding their own modern commentary and a contemporary take on his almost-forgotten herbal recipes

as seen from a trout's underwater perspective

After three years working as a young vet in rural Aberdeenshire