9780718117689 - game book: sporting round the world di hastings, macdonald (3 risultati)

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. Condizione: Good+ Hardback. Condizione sovraccoperta: Dj Good in Plastic Cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Neat inscription on front free end paper, rusty paperclip marks at the top of a couple of pages, the jacket is not price-clipped but has slight handling wear at the top and base of the spine and along the top edge.