Keeping the barbarians at bay
Subtitle: the last years of Kenneth Allsop, green pioneer
By: David Wilkinson ; foreword by Richard Mabey
Publisher: Signal Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781908493842
Subjects: Last years; English Authors; Biography; Environmentalists; Television journalists
Description: Kenneth Allsop was a writer, journalist and broadcaster who in the 1960s and early 70s became one of Britain's first television celebrities. Voted the 'fifth most handsome man in the world', he enjoyed the high life of fast cars, jazz and smart London parties, moving among the nation's glitterati from the arts, media and politics. But he was also an accomplished naturalist and a passionate conservationist who fought fiercely to hold back mounting threats to Britain's wildlife and landscapes. He played a key role in raising the public's concern for the environment long before the advent of the UK's now-powerful green movement. Keeping the Barbarians at Bay focuses on the last few years of Allsop's short life, when he escaped London to live in a seventeenth- century watermill in the secret, crumpled landscape of West Dorset.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-177) and index.