AWAY, MY LADS, AWAY: THE HISTORY OF HUNTING IN AND AROUND THE LAKELAND FELLS. By Jill Mason.

# 2011 1st edition. Landscape 4to (240 x 220mm). Pp336. Colour and b/w photographs. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt.

# "This book spans more than two hundred years offering an insight into the pride and traditions which go hand in hand with hunting in what is now Cumbria. Until 1974 this area embodied the counties of Westmorland, Cumberland and the north of Lancashire. Hunting contributed much to both the sporting and social lives of the many rural communities scattered along the dales which are flanked by steep and often hazardous fells. The text, peppered with anecdotes, outline the facts and 250 illustrations provide a pictorial record from early photographs of the nineteenth century right up to the present day. The original intention was to write about the history of the six fell packs, Blencathra, Coniston, Eskdale and Ennerdale, Lunesdale, Melbreak and Ullswater but one thing led to another and the beagle, harrier, otterhound and stag hound packs somehow found their way in. To record it all within one book has been a mammoth task but three years later the vision turned into reality and hopefully it will prove to be a useful reference book for generations yet to come in which they can discover what 'the good old days' were really like."