Thirty-Five Years in the New Forest - Couverture souple

Lascelles, Gerald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1473338042 ISBN 13 : 9781473338043

Editeur : Read Country Books, 2017

Synopsis

This vintage book contains a detailed account of the author's experiences tending the land of a royal home in Lyndhurst, the New Forest, England. It is a fascinating memoir concerning thirty-five years service which offers the reader an authentic insight into life in the royal village during the nineteenth century, which has been known as the capital of the New Forest since William the Conqueror. Contents include: "Introduction", "The Crown and the Commoners", "The Forest in Danger", "The Court in Danger", "The Court of Verderers", "Making a Start", "Some Verderers, Old and New", "My Work, My Staff, And my Chiefs", "The New forest Deer", "The King's House", "Royal Visits", "Forestry", "Hunting", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original test and artwork.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Goldsbrough in Yorkshire in October 1849, and, like many other natives of that county, especially those who bear the same name as myself, I became keenly interested in sport from my very early days. At the age of six I was duly blooded by Charles Treadwell, who was huntsman to the Bramham Moor hounds for twenty-three years. I went through the usual course of education at Eton and at Magdalene College, Cambridge. I was never without a ferret at Eton, and generally had at the least a share in a dog. My Cambridge days were, perhaps, the happiest of my life. We had then a very cheery sporting set at Magdalene. A mong them Sir Charles Fitzwilliam, now Crown Equerry to His Majesty; the late J.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Read Country Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1473338042
• ISBN 13: 9781473338043
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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