Author: Francis Charles LawleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Life and Times of "the Druid," Henry Hall Dixon
Author: Francis Charles LawleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"The Druid" Sporting Library: Life and times of "The Druid"
Author: The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author: Readers' Guide
Author: Six Centuries of Foxhunting
Author: M. L. BiscottiPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 144224190X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Hunting literature had its beginnings as early as the fourteenth century, when nobles hunted stag, bear, fox, and other game on horseback. As foxhunting grew in popularity, literary works that covered the sport flourished, as well. In Six Centuries of Foxhunting: An Annotated Bibliography, M. L. Biscotti has compiled all books produced in Great Britain and the United States that pertain to, or mention, foxhunting with hounds. Arranged alphabetically by author, more than 2000 titles are included. Each entry features details such as place and year of publication, publisher, book size, page count, illustrations, and binding. Nearly every title is also annotated with a description of the book’s contents, and biographical sketches are provided for the most notable authors. Narratives, histories, illustrated works, verse, fiction, and even anti-hunting literature all have their place in this volume. Six Centuries of Foxhunting also features more than thirty images of book covers and foxhunting illustrations. With appendixes that contain author, title, and illustrator time lines, and separate author and title indexes, this comprehensive bibliography is a valuable resource for researchers, book dealers and collectors, and foxhunters.
Catalogue
Author: Bibliotheca JacksonianaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Literary Era
Author: Notes on the Rifle
Author: Thomas Francis Fremantle (3rd baron Cottesloe.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballistics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Story of Your Life
Author: James LambiePublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1848762917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
The intriguing story and turbulent history of a paper Charles Dickens praised for its ‘range of information and profundity of knowledge’, and which Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, simply endorsed with the remark: ‘Of course I read The Sporting Life’. It was the Queen Mother’s love of horseracing that made her such an avid reader of the Life and coverage of that sport forms the core of this book, but there is so much more to fascinate the reader including eyewitness accounts of the first fight for the heavyweight championship of the world and Captain Webb’s heroic Channel swim of 1875. Highlights in the history of cricket, football and rugby are also featured, while chapters on coursing and greyhound racing rank alongside surreal reports on ratting contests and songbird singing competitions. And for 30 years Tommy Wisdom made his motoring reports unique by competing against the best at Brooklands, Le Mans and in many Monte Carlo rallies, while Henry Longhurst’s golfing column was simply the best. The paper’s strident campaigns for racing reforms are also chronicled along with its coverage of major news stories, from Fred Archer’s shocking suicide to its own untimely demise. Its travails in the law courts are documented from its first year, when it was forced to change its title, to its last, when it had to pay libel damages to the training team of Lynda and Jack Ramsden and their jockey, Kieren Fallon. A higher price was paid by its French correspondent who was killed in a duel over an article he had written, while the terrible toll the First World War took on the nation’s sporting heroes is catalogued by the Life’s embedded army correspondent, against a background of political bungling that is being repeated today.
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