Anthony Gibson was born in Devon in 1949, the eldest son of the broadcaster and cricket writer Alan Gibson. He read History at The Queen’s College, Oxford and spent most of his working life with the National Farmers’ Union in the South West, championing the cause of the region’s farming community. His first book, `Of Didcot and the Demon – The Cricketing Times of Alan Gibson’, was the MCC and Cricket Society’s Cricket Book of the Year for 2009. He has followed this with two volumes exploring the relationship of the English landscape to great literature: `With Magic in my Eyes’, about the south-west, and `The Coloured Counties’, coming up into the heart of England.
`A wonderful book. A book of exploration. Here we can walk the beautiful and diverse landscapes of the West Country in the writers’ footsteps, and thus discover new books and new places. We don’t just get to know this inspiring landscape anew; we get to feel it as the writers all did.’ - Michael Morpurgo. `A rare book and a glorious one.’ - Clive Aslet, Country Life. `A fount of knowledge. I felt as if I was learning something on every page.’ - Thomas Hardy Society Journal. `A splendid and proper book, elegantly designed, fluently written and brimming with fascinating content.’ - Dartmoor Online.
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