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Prolific is the word that applies, to someone with 125 books to his name - mostly about Dorset
and in-depth history ranging from the Romans to the SecondWorldWar - though Bournemouthborn
Rodney Legg prefers to call it `six feet of books'. That's the shelf-space they occupy.
It is a life that also has had its own themes. Feral childhood turned to teenage protest. A
journalist from the age of 16, he was the founder editor, in 1968, of the magazine that continues as
Dorset Life.A love affair with the ghost village ofTyneham secured unprecedented public access to
a live-firing range. For a quarter of a century he wardened Steep Holm island in the Bristol Channel
as a nature reserve memorial to his broadcasting friend Kenneth Allsop. With international author
John Fowles he published the 300-year-old archaeological notes of 17th-century antiquary John
Aubrey.His pride and joy are his couple of cats. And the appearance of what now totals 62 letters
(together with five `lives remembered') in The Times:`Enough to fill four pages!'
Legg's resentment against old attitudes in the NationalTrust turned into 20 years as a subversive
insider who opened Max Gate and Fort Henry in Dorset to an admiring public and secured
numerous lasting reforms. During this time, in pauses from the continuous motion of Dorset and
Somerset countryside walks, he specialised in finding and researching an esoteric range of antiquities
and bric-a-brac. His collection of Celtic heads is destined for the British Museum.
Often in trouble, never afraid to voice a difficult opinion, always crusading for a just cause, this
revealing autobiography covers the lows and highs of a figure who - admired or otherwise - has
become a much-loved Dorset institution.
and in-depth history ranging from the Romans to the SecondWorldWar - though Bournemouthborn
Rodney Legg prefers to call it `six feet of books'. That's the shelf-space they occupy.
It is a life that also has had its own themes. Feral childhood turned to teenage protest. A
journalist from the age of 16, he was the founder editor, in 1968, of the magazine that continues as
Dorset Life.A love affair with the ghost village ofTyneham secured unprecedented public access to
a live-firing range. For a quarter of a century he wardened Steep Holm island in the Bristol Channel
as a nature reserve memorial to his broadcasting friend Kenneth Allsop. With international author
John Fowles he published the 300-year-old archaeological notes of 17th-century antiquary John
Aubrey.His pride and joy are his couple of cats. And the appearance of what now totals 62 letters
(together with five `lives remembered') in The Times:`Enough to fill four pages!'
Legg's resentment against old attitudes in the NationalTrust turned into 20 years as a subversive
insider who opened Max Gate and Fort Henry in Dorset to an admiring public and secured
numerous lasting reforms. During this time, in pauses from the continuous motion of Dorset and
Somerset countryside walks, he specialised in finding and researching an esoteric range of antiquities
and bric-a-brac. His collection of Celtic heads is destined for the British Museum.
Often in trouble, never afraid to voice a difficult opinion, always crusading for a just cause, this
revealing autobiography covers the lows and highs of a figure who - admired or otherwise - has
become a much-loved Dorset institution.
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From the Author:
`Rodney Legg, arch-scourge (then and now)
of politicians, government, the military and the
Establishment in general' - editor Fanny Charles
`A cross between a feral man of the wild and an
advertising whiz kid (the former image,
perhaps, being an example of the latter gift)'
- essayist PaulaWeidegar
`A one-man Dorset cultural institution'
- feature writer PatrickWright
`That scurrilous ragmonger'
- businessman Jeremy Pope
About the Author:
of politicians, government, the military and the
Establishment in general' - editor Fanny Charles
`A cross between a feral man of the wild and an
advertising whiz kid (the former image,
perhaps, being an example of the latter gift)'
- essayist PaulaWeidegar
`A one-man Dorset cultural institution'
- feature writer PatrickWright
`That scurrilous ragmonger'
- businessman Jeremy Pope
Rodney Legg was born in Bournemouth of solid Dorset stock and has emerged as a hugely prolific
publisher, author and journalist particularly on country and walking themes and concerning the history of
Dorset. He also edited both Dorset - The Country Magazine and Purbeck and Poole Magazine.
Nationally he is still active in the environmental movement
having been chairman of the Open Spaces Society
since 1989 and a member of the ruling council of the
NationalTrust from 1990 to 2009.
publisher, author and journalist particularly on country and walking themes and concerning the history of
Dorset. He also edited both Dorset - The Country Magazine and Purbeck and Poole Magazine.
Nationally he is still active in the environmental movement
having been chairman of the Open Spaces Society
since 1989 and a member of the ruling council of the
NationalTrust from 1990 to 2009.
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- PublisherHalsgrove
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0857041061
- ISBN 13 9780857041067
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages144
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