Editing Duff Hart-Davis

{{short description|British biographer, naturalist and journalist}}
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'''Peter Duff Hart-Davis''' (born 3 June 1936),<ref>''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 2001.</ref> generally known as '''Duff Hart-Davis''' is a British biographer, [[naturalist]] and journalist, who writes for ''[[The Independent]]'' newspaper. He is married to Phyllida Barstow and has one son and one daughter, the journalist [[Alice Hart-Davis]]. He lives at [[Owlpen]], in [[Gloucestershire]].

He is the eldest son of the publisher [[Rupert Hart-Davis]], the nephew of the socialite [[Deirdre Hart-Davis]], and the brother of television broadcaster and author [[Adam Hart-Davis]] and Bridget, the dowager Lady Silsoe. His biography of his [[Godparent|godfather]], the adventurer and writer [[Peter Fleming (writer)|Peter Fleming]], entitled ''Peter Fleming: A Biography'', was published in 1974.

==Bibliography==

===Non-fiction===
*''Behind the Scenes on a Newspaper'' (1964)
*''Ascension: The Story of a South Atlantic Island'' (1972) {{ISBN|0-385-00314-5}}
*''Peter Fleming: A Biography'' (1974) {{ISBN|0-224-01028-X}}
*''Monarchs of the Glen: A History of Deer-Stalking in the Scottish Highlands'' (1978) {{ISBN|0-224-01463-3}}
*''Fighter Pilot'' (1981), co-written with Colin Strong
*''Hitler's Games: The 1936 Olympics'' (1986) {{ISBN|0-06-015554-X}}
*''Armada'' (1988) {{ISBN|0-593-01231-3}}
*''Country Matters'' (1988)
*''House the Berrys Built'' (1990) Concerns the history of ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' from its inception to 1990. Illustrated with references and illustrations of [[William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose]] (later called Lord Camrose).<ref>From a copy of book published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1990 with {{ISBN|0-340-52526-6}}</ref>
*''Wildings: The Secret Garden of Eileen Soper'' (1991)
*''Further Country Matters'' (1992) {{ISBN|1-85310-323-3}}
*''When the Country Went to Town: The Countryside Marches and Rally of 1997'' (1997)
*''Raoul Millais: His Life and Work'' (1998) {{ISBN|1-85310-977-0}}
*''Fauna Britannica: The Practical Guide to Wild & Domestic Creatures of Britain'' (2002) {{ISBN|0-297-82532-1}}
*''Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of the Birds of America'' (2003) {{ISBN|0-8050-7568-2}}
*''Honorary Tiger: The Life of Billy Arjan Singh'' (2005) {{ISBN|81-7436-405-6}}
*''[[Philip de László]]: His Life and Art'' (2010) {{ISBN|978-0-300-13716-3}}
*''The War That Never Was: The True Story of the Men who Fought Britain's Most Secret Battle'' (2011) {{ISBN|9780099553298}} (see [[North Yemen Civil War]])
* ''Among The Deer, In the Woods and on the Hill, A Stalker Looks Back'' (2011) {{ISBN|978-1-84689-096-3}}

===Novels===
*''The Megacull'' (1968) {{ISBN|0-09-455760-8}}
*''Gold of St. Matthew'' (1970) {{ISBN|0-09-456890-1}} Published in the U.S. as ''Gold trackers'' (1970)
*''Spider in the Morning'' (1972) {{ISBN|0-09-458610-1}}
*''The Heights of Rimring'' (1980) {{ISBN|0-224-01837-X}} Republished in ''Mammoth book of spy thrillers'', ed. John Winwood (1989) {{ISBN|0-88184-481-0}}
*''Level Five'' (1982) {{ISBN|0-224-01828-0}}
*''Fire Falcon'' (1983) {{ISBN|0-224-02080-3}}
*''The Man-Eater of Jassapur'' (1985) {{ISBN|0-224-02995-9}}
*''Horses of War'' (1991) {{ISBN|1-85619-062-5}}
*''The Stalking Party'' (2015) {{ISBN|978-1910723043}} (as D.P. Hart-Davis)

===As editor===
*''End of an era : letters and journals of Sir [[Alan Lascelles]], 1887–1920'' (1986) {{ISBN|0-241-11960-X}}
*''In Royal Service: Letters and Journals of Sir Alan Lascelles, Vol. 2, 1920–36'' (1989)
*''Eileen Soper's Book of Badgers'' (1992)
*''Pavilions of Splendour: An Architectural History of Lord's'' (2004)
*''King's Counsellor Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles'' (2006)

==Footnotes==
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==External links==
* [http://www.hd.org/ family website]

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