Winter’s tales

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Winter’s tales

The 1962 freeze, spies, murder and golf–here are four novels

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Country Life Magazine

07 January, 2026

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From the Apennine Mountains to ‘the end of the land’ at Cape Finisterre, Louis D Hall and his horse Sasha trekked untrodden partisan paths across four mountain ranges. Guided by strangers and nature’s clues, it was fulfilment of a childhood dream inspired by Don Quixote . Here, the author shares two extracts that give a glimpse into this wilder way of life