9780955217982 - Game Cock and Countryman von Humber, R.D.; Willock, Colin (1 Ergebnisse)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1982). (1966) 1982 2nd edition. 8vo (145 x 223mm). Ppvi,153. B/w illustrations by John Roberts, end-paper maps. Orange boards, spine titled in black. Very good copy in creased & faded dust-wrapper. Tales of the wild sports of the Lake District. Of wildfowling and poaching, trail hounds and tamed pine martens, and above all, of the Lakeland game fowl and the men who bred and fought them. Chapters include:- Initiation; A sporting magistrate; Two Lakeland sportsmen; Village characters; Wildfowling; Grit and steel; Tom Medcalf - cockfighter; Two eccentric celebrities; Lakeland sports and events; Irish interlude; Game to the end; Spirit of the game; Last hunt with Joe Wear. .