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Book reviews Fernie Couple Announce Engagement Book Review - A Countryman’s Creel Book Review - Hoof-beats Through My Heart A Life Shared With Horses Book Review: Working Ferrets, Handling with Nets, Guns & Dogs Book Review: A History of the Lunesdale & Oxenholme Staghounds Ron Black Mardale Echoes and Reflections of a Lost Lakeland Community Shap Local History Society A book review by James Barclay MFH - The Duke of Rutlands Hounds - The Belvoir A book review by David Harcombe - Try Back Lads, Try Back Away my Lads Away Among the Deer In the Woods and on the Hill – A Stalker Looks Back Hunting Songs Volume One: The Lakeland Fell Packs Rural Rites- Charlie Pye-Smith The Best of British - A Celebration of British Gunmaking Going Home -Jim Meads The Keen Foxhunter's Miscellany by Peter Holt |
Book reviewsBook Review - A Countryman’s CreelA Countrymans Creel- The Remarkable, the Heart-rending, the Intriguing, the Almost UnbelievableConor Farrington Illustrator: Joseph Shepherd ISBN 978-1-903122-35-5 Merlin Unwin £14-99I had never heard of Conor Farrington until picking up this compendium of short stories however the fact that he was ... Book Review - Hoof-beats Through My Heart A Life Shared With Horsesby David Edelsten ISBN: 978 1 906122 44 7 Published: January 2012 Price: £7.99 A quick question. Do you have any book tokens that arrived as Christmas present and that you were not quite sure what to do with? Then go and order this delightful new book from David Edelsten. At 128 pages with several ... Book Review: Working Ferrets, Handling with Nets, Guns & Dogs2nd Edition by Jackie Drakeford ISBN 978-1-84689-109-0R.R.P. £14.99There are times in the hunting year that the weather conspires to make the day unsafe for hounds or horses and on such days there is nothing better than spending a day working with dogs and ferrets. In this excellent review Dan Murp... Book Review: A History of the Lunesdale & Oxenholme Staghounds Ron BlackIn his recently self-published book, A History of the Lunesdale & Oxenholme Staghounds, Ron Black has chosen to focus his attention on a rather unique pack in the Lake District and hence provide the reader with a new insight into the wider history of hunting and its place within the social history ... Mardale Echoes and Reflections of a Lost Lakeland Community Shap Local History SocietyJust after 2pm on Saturday 3rd September 2011 the reception desk bell of the now demolished Dun Bull Hotel, Mardale sounded its ting ting. Normally visitors to the Shap Local History Society building ring this bell as a curiosity but today it was rung to announce the launch of the above book. I had ... A book review by James Barclay MFH The Duke of Rutlands Hounds - The BelvoirThe Duke of Rutlands Hounds, the Belvoir published by Merlin Unwin Hardback pp224 ISBN 9781906122317 price £25-00; is yet another piece of Michael Claytons work which captures everything about Hunting that makes it something so extraordinarily special. As a boy my first recollection of Michael Clay... A book review by David Harcombe Try Back Lads, Try BackWhen I settled down to read this book I came to page 8 and knew that I was on to something out of the ordinary, much more than a run of the mill, hunting/working dog book. For page 8 tells us a little of the work of the Hospice of the Valleys and profits from this volume will go to that worthy chari... Away my Lads AwayThis latest privately printed work from the husband and wife team David and Jill Mason has undoubtedly been a work of love: - for the Cumbrian Fells, its history together with the hunts, hounds and people that have formed that history. Three years’ work has produced 336 pages of highly readable narr... Among the Deer In the Woods and on the Hill – A Stalker Looks Back** Duff Hart-Davis Quiller 2011 ISBN 9781846890963 Hardback pp225** Recommended Retail Price £25-00A good sporting book should be able to retain the attention of the reader as events unfold. However a great sporting book treats the reader not as a spectator, present, though disassociated from even... Hunting Songs Volume One: The Lakeland Fell PacksBook Review: Hunting Songs Volume One: The Lakeland Fell Packs Ron Black, Wendy Fraser www.blurb.com from £7.50 (soft cover) I have frequently been at meets or supporters events (including balls) that have, at some point during proceedings, included a song or two, so I was delighted to be asked to r... Rural Rites- Charlie Pye-SmithThis little book by Charlie Pye Smith ISBN 9780955238406 and published by the Middle Way group in 2006 is less than 100 pages long but is required reading for anyone wanting to know the truth behind the political double dealings that lay behind the development of the Hunting Act. It may be a small b... The Best of British - A Celebration of British GunmakingIn reviewing the fantastic book from Quiller The Best of British - A Celebration of British Gunmaking by Vic Venters and David Grant ISBN 978-1846890697 published 2010 priced at £35-00 we are asking two questions, the first is- Should a reference work on guns and gun-making be reviewed in Baily'... Going Home -Jim MeadsThis is not a new book or even a revised version of the book published in 2008 by Quiller ISBN 9781846890413, but why should the fact that its not a 'new' publication prevent the writing of a review particularly one by Baily's as there are many similarities between us. Baily's is 'the' informatio... The Keen Foxhunter's Miscellany by Peter HoltThe Keen Foxhunter's Miscellany published by Quiller Publishing £16-95 ISBN 978-1-84689-065-9 follows on from the authors previous work 'The Keen Shots Miscellany'. The work is a compilation of anecdotes, reports, stories and quirky tales of hunting wisdom from the Romans to the present day. It's ... Law Of Field Sports by Tim Russ and Jamie Foster ISBN 9780854900685 £25-00 2010At some time in the past a rule was written (probably in Latin) that books about law are not meant to be approachable. The rule states that such books are written by highly qualified lawyers who are ‘taking time out’ from the stress of actually practising law and have decided therefore to pass on so... Maypole- the Story of a Beagle Hound- by Judy FootThere are very few books designed to introduce hunting and its management that are specifically designed for children. There are even less in this genre that were not written in the 1930-50's and use antiquated terms or concepts or expect their audience to have grown up in a fully staffed yard and w... Fox Hunting and the Damage Committee and Other Sporting History in DumfriesshireISBN 978-1-899315-64-9 Available from sales@robertthorne.co.uk £23-50 Written by experienced local author John Thompson this work is the collation of interviews with hunt supporters by determined local 'archivists' Roy Macgregor and his daughter in law Jan. Often, the issue with works of this ty... See Ho! The First Hundred Years of the Newcastle & District BeaglesThis quality hardback A4 landscape book is 100 pages long. It contains over 80 predominantly colour plates, of which 17 are full-page images and 22 half page images. It has been compiled by the current Chairman Ben Haywood Smith, Joint Master Andy Collier and members of the hunt using material gathe... Daughters of Artemis - by Richard AlmondExtensively researched and containing numerous monochrome and colour illustrations The Daughter of Artemis by Richard Almond (ISBN 978-84384-202-6) published by DS Brewer takes the reader on a journey through the roles and participation of women within the culture of hunting varied, usually accordin... |
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