isbn 9781445601502  Amberley Publishing, 2010

The author describes the explorations he has made since childhood throughout the county.  Here he describes his forays into the Sherwood Forest and his friendship with a Dukeries gamekeeper and a Forestry Commission warrener. He talks about his research into the great country houses and their ancestry connections, and into the Civil War battles and the origins of market towns and villages and also describes what he learned about Byron and D. H. Lawrence and the more recent writer, Fred Kitchen, who devotedly described the north Nottinghamshire scene as observed through the eyes of a farmer. 304pp