Alan Stewart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of the biographies Philip Sidney: A Double Life and Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon (with Lisa Jardine)>. He was previously Reader in Renaissance Studies at Birbeck, University of London, and Associate Director of the AHRB Centre for Editing Lives and Letters.
An extremely informative read that, at times, is harrowing and depressing. I can't understand the pain and torture some people will inflict on wildlife; largely for financial gain. The sooner that driven grouse shooting, that has been described as organised crime masquerading as a business, is banned the better. Well worth a read.