Mary Wakefield Mary Wakefield

Luxury Goods SpecialWild-boar hunting

Thrill of the <i>chasse</i>

issue 17 May 2003

Don’t worry,’ said our guide, Niels Bryan-Low, his eyes bright with malice, ‘the only time a wild boar is really dangerous is if you get between a mother and her baby.’ A few minutes later, crunching across a patch of orange ferns, there was blur of movement to our right.

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