ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1979). (1978) 1979 new paperback edition. Small 8vo paperback (124 x 188mm). Pp141,ill. B/w vignette illustrations. Photograph cover of the author with terriers on a road verge. Uniform slight browning, one or two thumb-prints but good-plus second-hand paperback. Brian Plummer holds forth on the subject of the rat, and his part in its downfall. With this book, "Brian Plummer scores again .This is a view of rats by someone who has spent much of his life pursuing them, and it is both a serious book on rats and their habits and a further instalment of his own autobiography, as eccentric and entertaining as before - not to say macabre (.hunting rats in a maggot factory?) .A fascinating book, invaluable to the hunter and terrier-owner." Chapters include: Black and brown rats - and never the twain shall meet; The Real McCoy - the brown rat; The hunting of the rat; Ferrets; Ratting dogs; The rat pits; Training a terrier to rat; Of rats and men; Mexborough, glorious Mexborough; The way south; The Midlands. .

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Title: TALES OF A RAT-HUNTING MAN. By Brian Plummer.
Publisher: Robin Clark. Milton Keynes. 1979
Publication Date: 1979
Language: English
ISBN 10: 086072025X
ISBN 13: 9780860720256
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: new

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After the initial shock of even considering a rat-catching professional, the title and content of this book are intriguing. The rat is "the unheralded game-animal of Great Britain," so much so that its proponents are feared and reviled as not quite "right." But from the time D. Brian Plummer received his first rat terrier at the age of 10, he dedicated himself to the sport of rat-catching using either dogs or ferrets. He actually enjoys killing rats and is pleased to share his techniques. Thank goodness for Plummer's wit and charm, which make the experience of reading about such nasty creatures a delight.

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