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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
COUNTRY FAIR by Max Hastings HarperCollins, 20 [pounds sterling], pp. 276, ISBN 0007198868
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The farmer and writer, A. G. Street, who in the 1950s co-edited with Max Hastings's father a magazine which gives this book its title, wrote before the war:
When the countryman turns his cows out to grass in the spring, he also gets out his rod and net ready for the fishing. The turning colour of the wheat makes the countryman think of...
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