Richard Carter’s fascinating exploration of his local grouse-moor in West Yorkshire digs deep into natural history, human history, prehistory, and the history of science. His writing is grounded, insightful, and frequently hilarious, and he shows how falling in love with your own local patch can be a gateway to the whole world.
—Neil Ansell, author and journalist
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You could even volunteer - then you'd be a herring aide!
I must at this point put in a word for our own Suffolk Herring Festival: see http://suffolkherringfestival.net/.
The 2010 event in particular was well attended - lots of people there - in fact shoals of them...