FULL CRY! HUNTING IN BRITAIN, IRELAND, FRANCE AND SOUTH AFRICA. ESSAYS BY A HUNTING CORRESPONDENT. By Colin A. Lewis.

2018 1st edition. Large 8vo paperback (171 x 242mm). Ppxvi,136. B/w photographs and illustrations, bibliography.

"The use of scenting hounds to hunt red and roe deer, fox, hare, jackal, and bush-pig is described in this book by Colin Lewis, a former Hunting Correspondent of The Irish Field. The author also outlines the history of venery in Ireland and reviews some of the art, literature and poetry associated, especially in Ireland, with hunting. The book contains over seventy illustrations by Eddie Buckmaster, the author, John Keulder and other gifted photographs, as well as sketches by Lucilla Jones. They include action shots taken in the field in winter, when hunting was at its peak. The photographs, sketches and text record ways of rural and social life that are almost unknown to, and seldom appreciated or understood by, the vast majority of urban dwellers. This fascinating and unusual book should interest all who follow hounds, as well as people interested in nature, environmental ecology, rural life, folklore, and ceremonial traditions that extend far back into distant history." Chapters include:- Hunting: A way of life in Ireland; The history of hunting in Ireland; Fireside reading for hunting folk; Artists and hunting in Ireland; The poetry of hunting; Hunting in Britain - A day on a young 'un with The Golden Valley, 1975; New Year's Eve - with the Sennybridge Farmers' Foxhounds, 1977; The Devon and Somerset Staghounds, 1978; Hunting in Ireland - The Kerry Beagle Packs, 1976; The Tynan and Armagh Harriers, 1987; The South Union - the oldest pack of Foxhounds in Ireland, 1980; The East Down Foxhounds, 1981; The North Tipperary Foxhounds - it could only happen in Ireland! 1977; The County Sligo Harriers, 1978; The Duhallow Foxhounds, 1981; The Killinick Harriers, 1979; The Golden Vale Foxhounds, 1983; Hunting in France - Stag hunting with the Equipage Champchevrier, 1980; Hunting roe deer with the Rallye Araize, 1980; In Brittany with the Rallye Parence, 1980; Hunting in South Africa - When the Irish went hunting in Africa - The Pietermaritzburg Hunt; Jackal hunting - with the Transkei Hounds, 1984; Bush-pig hunting with Mr Cloete's hounds, 1991; Mr Fox, the pig-hunting policeman, 1993.