The Official Guide Book
Fiesta: How To Survive The Bulls Of Pamplona
Facebook Page
-
Recent Posts
World’s No.1 Bullfight Blog
Click on image for link
World’s No.1 Bullfight Book
"Essential reading" The Times, "Best reads" The Telegraph, "Compelling. Lyrical." The Mail, "Thrillng." Financial Times, "Breathtaking” The Herald, “Intoxicating." The Australian, “Deeply felt." The Prague Post, Shortlisted for: William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2011, The 'Bookie' Prize
Twitter @toreritor
- RT @MatthewWalthert: As ever, a sober, intelligent reflection on a death in a bullring from @fiskeharrison: thelastarena.wordpress.com/2017/06/18/iva… 1 week ago
- The matador Iván Fandiño has been killed in the ring in Nîmes, France this evening. A good man and fine torero, Requiescat In Pace Maestro. 1 week ago
- RT @fiskeharrison: Bull-Running In The Land Of Buffalos fiskeharrison.wordpress.com/2017/02/23/bul… 4 months ago
- RT @fiskeharrison: Coming up... twitter.com/ClassicTamara/… 4 months ago
- RT @fiskeharrison: My article on Romania twitter.com/travelmail/sta… 5 months ago
- RT @fiskeharrison: Delighted to join my old friend, the matador Juan José Padilla, at the Club Taurino of London lunch in his honour yester… 7 months ago
- RT @CambiodTercio: Gracias maestro twitter.com/fiskeharrison/… 8 months ago
Meta
Author Archives: fiskeharrison
THE LAST ARENA: Iván Fandiño: We Who Are About To Die Salute You…
Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. (from Tennyson’s Ulysses) The 36-year-old Basque matador Iván Fandiño was killed by a bull in the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
The Editor’s definitive 10,000-words on what a bullfight really is…
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
THE LAST ARENA: Noel Chandler, Prince of Pamplona: A Tribute
From the bullfighting blog ‘The Last Arena’. Ed. It seems it is my season for tributes to dead friends: I lost a near-sister on September 14th, and a true friend one month later on October 14th. Noel Chandler, though, was … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
The Dangerous Summer: Editor’s article In The Telegraph
My article on the extraordinary fatality rate in the encierros, ‘bull-runs’, and other ‘popular’ taurine events this year, and why we continue to participate in them, is in The Telegraph today (online here.) A more detailed breakdown of the figures … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged alexander, bull, bull-runner, bull-running, bull-runs, bullfight, bullfighter, bullfighting, bullrun, bullrunner, bullrunning, bulls, castile, castile y leon, castille, castille and leon, corrida, cuellar, daily telegraph, Dangerous Summer, death, died, encierros, enrique bayon, feria, fiesta, fiske-harrison, gored, hemingway, killed, larry belcher, manuel escribano, matador, old castille, pamplona, pastor, running bulls, running of the bulls, running with bulls, spain, telegraph, telegraph me, telegraph men, the telegraph, torero, toros, toros bravos, xander
Leave a comment
An embarrassment of an injury
So the encierros of Cuéllar in Castille and Leon have continued with their usual ancient spirit of wildness although I have had to stop running with the bulls. On Monday afternoon there was an encierro chico, a bull-run for children involving vaquillas, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged alexander, bull-runs, bullfight, bullfighter, bullfighting, bulls, castile, castille, corrida, cuellar, encierros, fiesta, fiske-harrison, goring, injury, into the arena, javier herrero, jimenez fortes, lore monnig, manuel escribano, matador, spain, torero, xander
Leave a comment
A lethal summer with the bulls
So I am out in Cuéllar again at the end of my season of bull-running and what a dark year it has been. Someone was killed just a few days before I went to Pamplona to run – I wrote about … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 12, 12 dead, 66, 66-year-old, british, bull, bull-run, bull-running, bull-runs, bullfight, bullfighter, bullfighting, bulls, castile, castille, cuellar, dead, death, encierros, english, fatality, fiesta, fiske-harrison, how to survive, into the arena, killed, man gored, man killed, matador, pamplona, spain, torero, toros, world of the spanish
Leave a comment
From The Last Arena: Back To School
A fortnight ago I accepted a prize from the most ancient encierros, ‘bull-runs’, in all of Spain, those of the town of Cuéllar. Earlier that morning I nearly died while running them. The bull in the photo-detail below was suelto … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
