ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2011). (1991) 2011 2nd edition. 8vo (143 x 223mm). Pp240. B/w photographs and illustrations, brief bibliography. Pictorial laminated boards, issued without a dust-wrapper. Fine unread copy, issued without a dust-wrapper. "The author guides the reader through the principles of keeping, training and flying hawks .ideas for practice and discussion on housing, management and flying at quarry. .up to date information on hawking furniture and on the technology available to falconers." This is a new reprint of Upton's 1991 classic book on falconry, with only very minor revisions. Contents include; suitable country for hawking, acquiring skills, obtaining hawks; the hawk house, shelters and weathering ground; falconry furniture; eyasses, passagers, hacking and thoughts on training; flying out of the hood - rook hawking, crows, jackdaws, seagulls, magpies; hawkingdogs; game hawking - grouse hawking country, cost of grouse moors, waiting-on, first flight at quarry, importance of flushing down wind, waiting-on in hilly country, correct serving of quarry, positioning, waiting-on over the dog, the kill, grouse in cover, number of flights, hawking weather, hawking at the end of the grouse season, flying tiercels at grouse, soaring versus waiting-on, flying peregrines at grouse, grouse hawking with gyrs, flying other types of hawk at grouse, black game and ptarmigan as quarry, partridge hawking, pheasant hawking, snipe hawking, woodcock hawking, duck hawking; glove and hood making - gloves, jesses, hoods, braces, trimming, lures; patterns; suppliers - furniture, telemetry. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 19.95.

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Title: FALCONRY: PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE. By Roger Upton. Second edition.
Publisher: Coch-y-Bonddu Books. Machynlleth, Powys. 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1904784399
ISBN 13: 9781904784395
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: new

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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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