Duff Hart-Davis joined The Sunday Telegraph on its inception in 1961 and later travelled extensively as a feature reporter in India, Nepal, Turkey, the Caribbean, Norway, South Africa and Ascension Island. Shooting trips took him to Siberia, Poland and Hungary. Duff wrote the Country Matters column in The Independent (1986–2001). A distinguished biographer, naturalist and journalist, he is author of seventeen non-fiction books on subjects ranging from Hitler's Olympics, the adventurer, Peter Fleming, to a history of the mid-Atlantic island of Ascension. He has also published eight novels.
Duff was brought up on a farm in Oxfordshire. He did his National Service in Germany and read Classics at Oxford. He is married with two children and now lives on a farm in the Cotswolds.
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