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Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781888617375 Category : Pigeons Languages : en Pages : 370
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A fictional account of what happens when the world's most valuable bird, a champion Belgian racing pigeon, escapes and becomes the pet of a group of inner-city children. They have no idea of the bird's value but raise babies from the bird that win a major race, against long odds. An educational and heartwarming story of how the pigeon sport, and pedigreed homing pigeons, functions. Based on the international awarding-winning filmmaker, and author's, more than 50 years of experience in the pigeon hobby.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781888617375 Category : Pigeons Languages : en Pages : 370
Book Description
A fictional account of what happens when the world's most valuable bird, a champion Belgian racing pigeon, escapes and becomes the pet of a group of inner-city children. They have no idea of the bird's value but raise babies from the bird that win a major race, against long odds. An educational and heartwarming story of how the pigeon sport, and pedigreed homing pigeons, functions. Based on the international awarding-winning filmmaker, and author's, more than 50 years of experience in the pigeon hobby.
Author: Jon Day Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 147363539X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 342
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A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 'Rich and joyous ...The book's quiet optimism about our ability to change, and to learn to love small things passionately, will stay with me for a long time' Helen Macdonald 'Big-hearted and quietly gripping' Guardian 'I love Jon Day's writing and his birds. A marvellous, soaring account' Olivia Laing '[A] beautiful book about unbeautiful birds' Observer 'This is nature writing at its best' Financial Times 'Awash with historical and literary detail, and moving moments ... Wonderful' Telegraph 'Every page of this beautifully written book brought me pleasure' Charlotte Higgins 'A vivid evocation of a remarkable species and a rich working-class tradition. It's also a charming defence of a much-maligned bird, which will make any reader look at our cooing, waddling, junk-food-loving feathered friends very differently in future' Daily Mail 'Endlessly interesting and dazzlingly erudite, this wonderful book will make a home for itself in your heart' Prospect As a boy, Jon Day was fascinated by pigeons, which he used to rescue from the streets of London. Twenty years later he moved away from the city centre to the suburbs to start a family. But in moving house, he began to lose a sense of what it meant to feel at home. Returning to his childhood obsession with the birds, he built a coop in his garden and joined a local pigeon racing club. Over the next few years, as he made a home with his young family in Leyton, he learned to train and race his pigeons, hoping that they might teach him to feel homed. Having lived closely with humans for tens of thousands of years, pigeons have become powerful symbols of peace and domesticity. But they are also much-maligned, and nowadays most people think of these birds, if they do so at all, as vermin. A book about the overlooked beauty of this species, and about what it means to dwell, Homing delves into the curious world of pigeon fancying, explores the scientific mysteries of animal homing, and traces the cultural, political and philosophical meanings of home. It is a book about the making of home and making for home: a book about why we return.
Author: John Clements Publisher: Crowood ISBN: 1847976697 Category : Pets Languages : en Pages : 357
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This authoritative book is aimed particularly at those who participate in racing pigeons at distances of over five hundred miles but will be of value to all pigeon fanciers. John Clements succeeds in making the reader view the humble pigeon in a different light and ensures that he, or she, gains a deeper appreciation of the enormous joy and satisfaction that can be gained from long-distance pigeon racing.Contains detailed accounts of interviews with the owners of nine top British and Continental lofts involved in long-distance pigeon racing. The interviews cover a wide range of important issues including the acquisition of stock, the treatment of young birds and yearlings, feed, health and immunity. Other subjects covered include loft management, cleaning, construction and ventilation, the pairing and exercising of the birds, the systems used (widowhood, on the nest, or both) race preparation and many other subjects. Well illustrated with over 170 colour photographs, pedigree charts and postcards. This easily accessible, informative and analytical book is essential reading for pigeon fanciers everywhere.The objective of the book is to make the reader look at the humble pigeon in a different light and gain satisfaction from the joy of long-distance racing. Provides fascinating accounts of interviews with the owners of nine successful lofts.John Clements is a dedicated commentator on long-distance pigeon racing; an enthusiastic supporter of international racing and has a regular weekly column in British Homing World.
Author: Herbert R. Axelrod Publisher: Read Books Ltd ISBN: 1447484630 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 247
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This vintage text contains a comprehensive guide to racing pigeons, with information on training, feeding, housing, showing, breeding, and much more. This complete and timeless guide will be of considerable utility to both prospective and existing fanciers, and would make for a wonderful addition to collections of related literature. The chapters of this book include: 'The Pigeon's History', 'The Loft', 'Keeping the Loft Clean', 'The Pigeon', 'Feeding', 'The Breeding Season', 'The Moult', 'Colors', 'Teaching the Young Bird', 'Cooped', 'Young-Bird Racing', 'The Club', 'Old-Bird Racing', 'Winning Systems', etcetera. This book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a new biography of the author.
Author: Linda Carroll Publisher: Hachette Books ISBN: 0316432210 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 295
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In the bestselling tradition ofthe The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the propulsive, inspiring Cinderella story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought the colt on the cheap and molded him into the most popular horse of his time and the richest racehorse the world had ever seen. In the wake of World War II, as turmoil and chaos were giving way to a spirit of optimism, Americans were looking for inspiration and role models showing that it was possible to start from the bottom and work your way up to the top-and they found it in Stymie, the failed racehorse plucked from the discard heap by trainer Hirsch Jacobs. Like Stymie, Jacobs was a commoner in "The Sport of Kings," a dirt-poor Brooklyn city slicker who forged an unlikely career as racing's winningest trainer by buying cheap, unsound nags and magically transforming them into winners. The $1,500 pittance Jacobs paid to claim Stymie became history's biggest bargain as the ultimate iron horse went on to run a whopping 131 races and win 25 stakes, becoming the first Thoroughbred ever to earn more than $900,000. The Cinderella champion nicknamed "The People's Horse" captivated the masses with his rousing charge-from-behind stretch runs, his gritty blue-collar work ethic, and his rags-to-riches success story. In a golden age when horse racing rivaled baseball and boxing as America's most popular pastime, he was every bit as inspiring a sports hero as Joe DiMaggio and Joe Louis. Taking readers on a crowd-pleasing ride with Stymie and Jacobs, Out of the Clouds -- the winner of the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award -- unwinds a real-life Horatio Alger tale of a dauntless team and its working-class fans who lived vicariously through the stouthearted little colt they embraced as their own.
Author: Anne Marie Sciberras Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1524520837 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 154
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The Flights and Plights of Benedict: The Racing Pigeon is a book about a young royal racing pigeon living a hard, unfulfilling life. I mean, if you think youre having a bad day, have you ever considered what life is like for a racing pigeon? To be left in the middle of nowhere, being able to rely only on your own instincts under the banner of racing? I can assure you, it isnt a life for the fainthearted. No sooner have you gotten home from a race then youre being sent away again from your loved onesand who knows if youll return this time. And if youre a royal racing pigeon, the expectations that are placed upon you are most unfair. But after suffering a terrible tragedy, Benedict isnt happy to stay living under the control of his cruel master, and he is determined to show his fellow pigeons that life can be better. Unwavering in his beliefs, he sets himself a mission to prove that not all humans are nasty and greedy. Along the way, after many setbacks, he discovers help and hospitality can come from the most unusual of suspects. But will it be enough to alter his grim destiny?
Author: Liam O' Comáin Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1471632830 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 113
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In this publication I present brief insights into and profiles of some of the best European lofts of long distance and marathon pigeon racing presently operating as we traverse the initial years of a new millennium. I also include an appendix relating to master pigeoners who have now departed to the large loft in the heavens but whose families, strains and dynasties positively impacted upon the sport of those now breeding and racing the thoroughbreds of the sky.
Author: Old Hand Publisher: Read Books Ltd ISBN: 1447483774 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 117
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This vintage book contains a fascinating and comprehensive treatise on the racing pigeon, and includes information on feeding, general care and management, breeding, and much more. This text contains a wealth of timeless information on racing pigeons, as well as many useful hints and handy tips. It will be of considerable utility to the modern fancier. The chapters of this book include: 'The Racing Ace', 'Making Pigeons Fly Faster', 'Feeding for Breeding', 'Preparation for the Breeding Season', 'Controlling Racing Pigeons', 'The Master Gland', 'Special Investigation into the Cause of Racing Pigeons Respiratory Troubles', etcetera. Many antiquarian books such as this are becoming increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new introduction on pigeons.
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