This vintage book contains a complete manual for the sportsman, game preserver, gamekeeper, and amateur on the art of taking animals and birds in traps, snares, and nets.
This vintage book constitutes one volume of a detailed and useful guide to falconry, and includes information on the care and management of falcons and related birds.
This antiquarian book constitutes one volume of a detailed and useful guide to falconry, and includes information on celebrated falconers and falconers' clubs.
This antiquarian book constitutes one volume of a detailed and useful guide to falconry, and includes information on the peregrine, eyesses, 'hacking' hawks, training, game hawking, records of sport, and magpie hawking.
This antiquarian book constitutes one volume of a detailed and useful guide to falconry, and includes information on the modern falconer, a discussion implements used, and a glossary of terms.
This volume contains a classic handbook on the art of taxidermy and includes all the information an existing or prospective taxidermist needs to know about their enterprise.
This antiquarian text contains a detailed discourse on fish and fishing, with information on catching carp, bream, salmon, dace, and many other common fish.
Originally published in London 1905, this book was considered essential reading for anyone new to English field sports and especially to overseas visitors wishing to take part in English game shooting.
'A poetic account of the dialogue Richards has conducted with the river during half a century of listening to the whisper and gurgle of its myriad voices - a lyrical evocation of the sights, sounds and scents of a great Canadian waterway' - The Sunday HeraldLines on the Water is the story of a town, its river and the community of people who fish in it.
The nineteenth-century American writer Theodore Gordon wrote 'it is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year'.
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Hunting - Philosophy for Everyone presents a collection of readings from academics and non-academics alike that move beyond the ethical justification of hunting to investigate less traditional topics and offer fresh perspectives on why we hunt.
Hunting - Philosophy for Everyone presents a collection of readings from academics and non-academics alike that move beyond the ethical justification of hunting to investigate less traditional topics and offer fresh perspectives on why we hunt.
Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art provides editions, English translations, and analysis from social, cultural, and environmental perspectives of the three oldest European extended tracts on fishing.
An engrossing history, Fish, Law, and Colonialism recounts the human conflict over fish and fishing in British Columbia and of how that conflict was shaped by law.
This work provides readers with an authoritative resource for understanding the true extent and nature of gun violence in America, examining the veracity of claims and counterclaims about mass shootings, gun laws, and public attitudes about gun control.
This provocative book debunks the myth that American gun culture was intentionally created by gun makers and demonstrates that gun ownership and use have been a core part of American society since our colonial origins.
