I had long hair and a full-length leather coat from Oxfam, which I thought made me look like Geezer Butler. By then, I was thirteen, and I’d just discovered Black Sabbath. I was seven when it was published, but it didn’t cross my radar until the film of 1978. Inspired by the story, George Kitching put on his boots and set off on the path of the Plague Dogs… Adams describes the landscape in vivid detail, and original editions of the book are illustrated in characteristic part sketch/part map style by one of Lakeland’s greatest apostles. When an unsecured catch and a loose bit of wire afford a means of escape, they find themselves in the Coniston Fells. In Richard Adams’ 1977 bestseller, Plague Dogs, Rowf and Snitter are two dogs subjected to cruel experiments in a vivisection lab.
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