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OBITUARY: Ian Niall ; Author of `The Poacher's Handbook'
2002
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FEW BOOKS remain in print for 50 years, but one which has is [Ian Niall]'s The Poacher's Handbook, a classic of the countryside whose spare prose evokes the feeling of the land, especially at night, with magically slight, sure touches. The urge to poach, the author declares, That book - part memoir, part instruction, part natural history, embellished with dark wood engravings by Barbara Greg - gripped my imagination as a boy, and has haunted me ever since; but it was many years before I discovered that Ian Niall was a pseudonym, and that the author's real name was [John Kincaid McNeillie]. When The Poacher's Handbook came out in 1950, it was recognised as a masterpiece of rural writing, and for the next 20 years Niall/ McNeillie contributed regular country columns to the Spectator and Country Life. He also edited the monthly magazine Angling. Yet he remained reclusive and, even when his work was widely recognised, preferred to shelter behind his pseudonym and keep to the high ground.
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