ADVENTURES OF AN ARTISAN HUNTER. By Brian Plummer.
Language: English
Published by Coch-y-Bonddu Books. Machynlleth. 2000, 2000
- Hardcover
- New
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United KingdomCoch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd
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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2000). (1979) 2000 new edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Pp128. B/w illustrations by Martin Knowelden. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. Account of Plummer's development as a hunter, from boyhood exploits with lurcher and terrier to adulthood, with many interesting digressions. Includes chapters on cock-fighting and bird-catching, cooking and eating badgers, foxes and rats, hawks and hawking. Although Plummer often comes across as bonkers, many of his apparently eccentric actions, such as badger eating or covering himself with a concoction of badger grease and herbs, were experiments to establish the plausibility of claims made by other writers. Being perpetually surrounded by people incapable of sharing this pioneering spirit of enquiry seems the source of his restlessness and the driving force behind the hundreds of books he wrote in his lifetime. This is not to say that Plummer did not have deep problems, as he himself describes in Hancock's My Life with Lurchers. .…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- ADVENTURES OF AN ARTISAN HUNTER. By Brian Plummer.
- Author
- Plummer (David Brian). (1936-2003).
- Publisher
- Coch-y-Bonddu Books. Machynlleth. 2000
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0953364860
- ISBN 13
- 9780953364862
Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd
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PAUL MORGAN IS A LEADING DEALER in scarce, out-of-print & new books on fishing and field sports. Paul has developed this business over more than forty years. His business, Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., carries the world's largest range of books on fishing and field sports, sporting guns and dogs, deer, big game hunting & falconry. Coch-y-Bonddu Books is also a noted publisher of fine sporting works, as well as being the custodian of the famous Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint. Under Paul's editorial direction, the list of titles available under both his Coch-y- Bonddu Books imprint and the Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint grows by the month. Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., incorporated in the United Kingdom, Company No. 04636991. Registered address: 15 Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8AG. Business and correspondence Address: 13 Heol Pentrerhedyn, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8DG.…
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