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Red Rag To A Bull - Rural Life in an Urban Age (Hardcover)
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Red Rag To A Bull - Rural Life in an Urban Age (Hardcover)
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List price R637
Loot Price R580
Discovery Miles 5 800
You Save R57 (9%)
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Author Jamie Blackett arrives home from the Army to take over a
small family estate on the Solway Firth in Dumfries and Galloway
and finds a rapidly changing countryside. In a humorous and
occasionally-moving tale, he describes how he grapples with the
intricacies of farming, conservation and estate management and
tells the story of founding a pack of foxhounds and a herd of
pedigree beef cattle. Part childhood memoir, part biopic of rural
life, readers are transported to a remote and beautiful part of
Scotland and acquainted with its wildlife, its people and its
customs. One minute he is unblocking his septic tank, and the next
he is watching Glenn Close film a sex scene in his bedroom. Set
over the first two decades of the 21st century, through the
Scottish independence referendum, Brexit and the hunting ban, the
result is an enlightened review of the challenges threatening a
vulnerable way of life and an emerging rural philosophy about the
directions Scotland, farming and the countryside might take in the
brave new world of Brexit.
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