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The Megacull

The Megacull

by Duff Hart-Davis

Publisher Constable

Genre: Crime

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    Fine first edition with some light bruising to the top and the bottom of the spine. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket with similar bruising to the top and the bottom of the spine.

About the book

"Why not kill them" said the voice "After all, you cull Deer... Fifty stags a year and a hundred hinds. It does the forest good. Without it the deer would suffer. It's the same for the people. Just aa couple million a year. The old, the sick, the insane, the down and outs. Cull them humanely, for the good of the race. One megacull to start, and then a small one every autumn..."

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About the Author

Duff Hart-Davis

Duff Hart-Davis is the author or editor of over 40 books, and the biographer of Peter Fleming, Raoul Millais, and Philip de Laszlo. He has written novels and military memoirs, served in the Coldstream Guards and flown numerous sorties as an observer in the RAF. His lifelong interest in natural history led to the widely-praised encyclopaedia Fauna Britannica, and to Audubon's Elephant, the story of how J.J. Audubon produced his great work The Birds of America. His most recent book is Our Land at War: A Portrait of Rural Britain 1939-45 which was published by HarperCollins in 2015.

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