STORMY NIGHTS AND FROSTY MORNINGS. By Paul Dooley.

2004 1st edition. 8vo (151 x 217mm). Ppviii,190. B/w photographs. Blue leather-effect boards, spine titled in gilt.

Great sporting memories of an expert falconer and lurcherman. The book covers rabbiting and ratting with terrier, lurcher and hawk, ferreting, lamping and coursing hare, fox and deer, and hawking with gos and harris hawks. Good b/w photographs by the author and by Phil Lloyd. Chapters include: Sowing the seeds - growing into a hunter; Frosty mornings - ferrets, rabbiting and ratting; Stormy nights - the most versatile of all hunting dogs; Out-foxing the fox - the most testing and exciting quarry; Hawks and hawking - feathered hunters; Hunting the Highlands - Adventures in Scotland; Hunting into the future.