9780718117689 - Game Book: Sporting Round the World de Hastings, Macdonald (3 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). 1979 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 222mm). Pp173. B/w photographs. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt. Minor faults, slight foxing to end-papers and edges. Good-plus in slightly tanned and used dust-wrapper. "[The author] reminisces about adventures in war and peace, about shooting and fishing in Africa, India, Norway, the U.S. and Canada, of shooting partridges in the middle of a battle in France, and of working with television cameras in the English countryside, and discusses the techniques of shooting with bow and arrow and with a muzzle-loader." Chapters include:- The mind of a child; The making of a countryman; The poaching years; Sporting in wartime; Our comic opera shoot; The good old days; Great shots; The tycoons of sport; Game on the hook; Shooting about the world; The coutryside on television; Adventures in sea fishing; No tall stories; The hazards of fishing; Fishing in Ireland; Surprises in Arctic Norway; Dogs in my life; Odd birds; Believe it or not; Hunting alone; Shooting with a muzzleloader; Bows and arrows; My lifelong love affair with the Highlands; Souvenirs. .

Hardcover. Condición: Good+ Hardback. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Dj Good in Plastic Cover.