Two Centuries of Foxhunting
Author | : Alexander Henry Higginson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Fox-hunting |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alexander Henry Higginson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Fox-hunting |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alexander Henry Higginson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Fox-hunting |
ISBN | : |
Author | : M. L. Biscotti |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2017-06-23 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 144224190X |
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.
Author | : Allyson N. May |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2016-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317031385 |
August 1781 saw the publication of a manual on fox hunting that would become a classic of its genre. Hugely popular in its own day, Peter Beckford's Thoughts on Hunting is often cited as marking the birth of modern hunting and continues to be quoted from affectionately today by the hunting fraternity. Less stressed is the fact that its subject was immediately controversial, and that a hostile review which appeared on the heels of the manual's publication raised two criticisms of fox hunting that would be repeated over the next two centuries: fox hunting was a cruel sport and a feudal, anachronistic one at that. This study explores the attacks made on fox hunting from 1781 to the legal ban achieved in 2004, as well as assessing the reasons for its continued appeal and post-ban survival. Chapters cover debates in the areas of: class and hunting; concerns over cruelty and animal welfare; party politics; the hunt in literature; and nostalgia. By adopting a thematic approach, the author is able to draw out the wider social and cultural implications of the debates, and to explore what they tell us about national identity, social mores and social relations in modern Britain.
Author | : Frederick Watson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2011-05-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258020934 |
Author | : Various |
Publisher | : Stevenson Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781447421122 |
Fox Hunting and America may not be connected in most people's mind but America has a very rich history of fantastic hunting packs. This book looks at the southern United States and the Genesee Valley in Michigan.
Author | : Alexander Henry Higginson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Fox-hunting |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Norman Fine |
Publisher | : Derrydale Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2010-08-16 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1461661390 |
A collection of thirty-two foxhunting stories populated by horses, hounds, challenging obstacles, and unforgettable personalities. Accompany Norman Fine to Ireland, England, Canada, and across the United States as he meets, hunts with, and is educated by the foremost Masters, huntsmen, hound breeders, and sporting historians of the last fifty years. Fine's stories, most of them previously published in the U.S. and England, are connected chronologically by new material in which the author explains how he came to meet these larger-than-life characters, what role they played in his development from horseman to foxhunter, and how he came to hunt with their hounds.
Author | : Alexander Mackay-Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Fox hunting |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Clayton |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2012-12-17 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 144821047X |
In Foxhunting in Paradise, a major work of research and practical exploration in and around the hunting field, Michael Clayton brings entirely up to date histories of the Quorn, Belvoir, Cottesmore and Fernie Hunts. He describes the glamour, the risks and the controversy surrounding hunting in the paradise of Leicestershire's ridge and furrow grasslands, divided by fly fences and dotted with fox coverts. Royalty, captains of industry, young bloods from the services, and not a few fortune hunters and courtesans have been among those gracing the houses and hunting fields of Leicestershire. Yet the sport depends ultimately on the continued goodwill of the vast majority of Leicestershire's farmers and landowners, a prize which has always been retained. Clayton does not shrink from the essential conservation issues which he believes justify hunting, and he deals with the most recent accusations against the sport's conduct in Leicestershire. Foxhunting in Paradise throws new light on a peculiarly British phenomenon in an area of understated beauty in the heart of England, described by the great hunting correspondent Nimrod thus: 'In the absence of all perfection, it is as a hunting country as nearly approaching to it as nature and art can make it, and its fame may be said to have reached the remotest corners of the civilised world'.