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Reminiscences of an Old West Country Clergyman by W.H. Thornton. Edited by Duff Hart-Davis £12.99 paperback ISBN 978-1-900318-38-9 This classic account of sport and country life in the West Country
was printed privately at the end of the Victorian era.
The Rev. William Thornton was a hard-riding outdoorsman who
began his career as a young curate on Exmoor, and later moved south
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Setra the Sea Trout & other stories Charles Bingham £12.99 paperback ISBN 978-1-900318-42-6 Setra, a great sea trout, enters the Tors river estuary from the sea in spring. He is drawn up the waterway by the spawning urge to mate in the moorland headwaters in winter. An old fisherman, Pengelly, lives alone above the river in a granite cottage; he hopes to catch Setra on this up-river journey but exhausts himself in the pursuit. A barn owl watches them both. There are stories about trout, salmon, pike, chub, eels and fish hooks. A convict escapes from Dartmoor Prison and takes refuge near the river Dart in a derelict farmhouse, and a fishing solicitor falls asleep in the dark by the river with his back to a stone cross and experiences the apparition of a drowning child. Ravens, dippers, owls and other birds, together with badgers and otters find places in the pages of this book written by Charles Bingham from his Dartmoor home. For many years Charles ran fly-casting and fishing courses from his Tavistock home. He has also produced several books for fisherman and countrylovers, and contributed many articles and stories to country magazines. |
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The Gardener's Essential Gertrude Jekyll Introduction by Elizabeth Lawrence £16.95 hardback ISBN 978-1-900318-37-2 This indispensable book contains a selection of the best and most important passages from Gertrude Jekyll's many books on gardening. It is divided into eight chapters, on subjects from 'Design and Ornament' and 'Colour and Scent' to 'Flowers in the House', each one an ingenious distillation of the sound commonsense, wise advice and enormous knowledge which Gertrude Jekyll included in her books. Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) was one of the founding figures of modern British gardening. Born in London, she studied at the Kensington School of Art and maintained a career as a painter until nearing middle age, when she turned to horticulture. Before she died, she had written thirteen books and made plans for, or taken part in the planning of, almost 350 gardens, many of which were designed in collaboration with the architect Edwin Lutyens. |
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Flyfishing for Grayling By John Roberts £17.99 hardback ISBN 978-1-900318-19-8 This new book is the fruit of John Roberts' many years quest as a grayling specialist that took him to Scandinavia, Canada and the USA as well as Eastern Europe in pursuit of his quarry. Illustrated with fine colour plates of grayling flies this is an authoritative book and an essential source for all grayling fishermen. "Definitive" Trout and Salmon |
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Fishing from Afar By Stpehen Johnson £25.00 hardback ISBN 978-1-900318-24-2 Stephen Johnson wrote this classic fishing book in a German prison camp after his plane was shot down in 1942. First published in 1947,this new edition with its exceptionally entertaining descriptions of angling adventures in Skye and elsewhere is introduced by Tom Fort. |
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Pike and the Pike Angler By Fred Buller £27.95 hardback ISBN 978-1-900318-26-6 Fred Buller is well known as one of England's finest all-round anglers. Throughout his life he has made a particular study of the pike, regarded in many European countries as the sublime sporting fish. Divided into three parts, this new edition of the definitive book on the sport, is full of fascinating material derived from lessons and lore. Enlightening and entertaining - a timeless classic. |
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The Amateur Poacher By Richard Jefferies £18.95 hardback ISBN 978-1-900318-22-8 First published in 1879, this is a new edition of Richard Jefferies' classic book regarded as one of the treasures of sporting literature. Son of a Wiltshire farmer, he had roamed the woods and fields from an early age, gaining a thorough knowledge of his subject. His detailed observations and accessible style make this a favouritewith both shooters and country lovers. |
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Where the Bright Waters
Meet By Harry Plunket Greene £19.95 hardback ISBN 978-1-900318-21-1 Among the handful of books on trout fishing that live from one generation of anglers to the next, the most entertaining is Where the Bright Waters Meet, first published in 1924. This new edition of Harry Plunket Greene's classic book set in the Hampshire village of Hurstbourne Priors, is taken from the revised text of 1936, the last edition that appeared in his lifetime. |
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The Gamekeeper at
Home By Richard Jefferies £18.95 hardback ISBN 978-1-900318-20-4 Originally published in 1878, this remarkably detailed account of the domestic and professional world of the gamekeeper (Old Velveteen) is well established as one of the finest books about English rural life. Authentic and beautifully written with the understanding of a true countryman, its appeal is undiminished by time and is a must for any countrylover's bookshelf |
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Gamekeeper's
Notebook By Owen A. Jones £18.95 hardback ISBN 978-1-900318-16-7 This classic country book was first published in 1910. A Gamekeeper's Notebook provides an absorbing account of the keeper's daily life and work month by month through the seasons. It reveals the secrets of the trade. the ways of the pheasant and the stoat, the hare and the fox, the badger and the crow, as well as the methods of the night poacher, with long net and snare. It is probably the most authoritative book of its kind ever produced. |
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