The Herbalist's Bible horse racing poem

The Herbalist's Bible horse racing poemHerbalist to King Charles I, John Parkinson (15671650) was a master apothecary, herbalist and gardener. Famous in his own lifetime for his influential books, his magnum opus was published in 1640, the Theatrum Botanicum, which ran to 1,788 large pages. The sheer scope and size was perhaps to prove the books downfall because, while it was much revered and indeed plagiarized, it was never reprinted and now has the status of an extremely valuable rare

Big Airguns and Bullet Bows

Punt gunning

trout and pike

watches a shrew in Wales

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160 simple

bleak and dramatic hill-tops

But how many of us have the opportunity to do so on a French chalkstream

each paired with a specially commissioned

You don’t want to put harmful chemicals down the drains

Northern Ireland and everywhere in-between on his various short holiday expeditions

Beautifully illustrated with the author’s own watercolours