POACHERS' TALES. By John Humphreys. Illustrations by John Paley.

POACHERS' TALES. By John Humphreys. Illustrations by John Paley.

COUNTRY TALES: OLD GAMEKEEPERS. By Brian P. Martin.

COUNTRY TALES: OLD GAMEKEEPERS. By Brian P. Martin.

TALES OF THE OLD GAMEKEEPERS. By Brian P. Martin.

(1989) later reprint. Large 4to (197 x 267mm). Pp189,ads. Colour illustrations by Philip Murphy, frontispiece by Will Garfit, photographs. Green cloth.

Estate life in the twentieth and late nineteenth centuries seen through the eyes of gamekeepers and shoot staff. Many interesting old photographs and illustrations. A first-rate read. Chapters include: Overcoming tyranny, Charles South; The world's oldest keeper? George Pryke; Brideshead Revisited, Stanley Ware; Their Majesties' Keeper, Jack Clark; Mainly from the archives; King of the gamekeepers, Harry Grass; From bird scarer to headkeeper, Len Macey; Last of the line, Wally Fakes; The one-man estate, Bill Gill; Mainly from the archives; Everyone called me 'Foxy', Frank Hunt; Good times, hard times, Harry Ward; Mainly from the archives; Honest as the day's long, Harry Churchill; Mainly from the archives; The farmer's boy, Leslie Buckle.
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Book Code
19352
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Author Martin (Brian Philip). (b. 1947).
Book Code 19352
ISBN 0715392328 / 0715392328.
Book Description Good-plus in slightly used dust-wrapper.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1989
Publisher David and Charles.
Place Newton Abbot, Devon.