David McDowall served in HM Forces, the British Council and the United Nations before turning to writing. He is an historian who has written on the recent and modern Middle East, British history and a series of walker's guides to publicly accessible landscapes.

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• Introduction; Walk No. 1: Moat Park and Cranbourne; Walk No. 2: Around the Village; Walk No. 3: Around the perimeter of Norfolk Farm; Walk No. 4: Virginia Water; Walk No 5: Cumberland and Royal Lodges; Walk No. 6: The Deer Park and the Long Walk; The Gardens of Windsor Great Park; The Savill Garden; The Valley Gardens; The Political Landscape; The ecological and economic landscape; George III and Agriculture; Nathaniel Kent, Charles Townshend and the Flemish and Norfolk Farms; Longhorn cattle; Royal and regimental goats; Index.