Fieldsports, Foraging and Terrible Ordeals

This eclectic book combines elements of a humorous field guide, memoir, and yearbook, chronicling a variety of unexpected adventures and mishaps encountered over a year. Set in the 1970s, it covers diverse activities such as pheasant shooting, fishing in the Pyrenees, goose hunting in Scotland, boar hunting in France, and foraging on icy beaches. Some stories have been featured earlier in Robin Bennett’s longer work, "Life's a Banquet."