A Passion for Records: Walter Rye (1843-1929), Topographer, Sportsman and Norfolk's Champion - Couverture souple

Kitching, Christopher

 
9781788039215: A Passion for Records: Walter Rye (1843-1929), Topographer, Sportsman and Norfolk's Champion
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1788039211 ISBN 13 : 9781788039215
Editeur : Matador, 2018

Synopsis


The biography of an enigmatic Victorian pioneer.
The first critical appraisal of this sporting legend and antiquary, using his own archives and writings. Important glimpses of everyday Victorian life. Suitable for those with interests in sport, local history, genealogy and record editing.

Walter Rye was a London solicitor until he retired to Norwich, but it was three spare-time passions that earned him his place in the Dictionary of National Biography: physical exercise, record-searching, and a devotion to his ancestral county of Norfolk.

His love of the outdoors was unbounded: athlete, cyclist, sailor and archer, keen amateur gardener and naturalist. Despite this, mortal illness seemed to stalk him, and yet he lived well into his eighties.

In A Passion for Records, Rye's prolific writings as author, columnist and correspondent, replete with witty put-downs, offer many laugh-out-loud moments. His antiquarian writings invite more serious attention, after cautionary tales about his editorial techniques.

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À propos de l?auteur

Christopher Kitching is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and of the Royal Historical Society. After a career in archives at the Public Record Office and the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts he was appointed CBE in 2004. A chance encounter with Walter Rye as a pioneer among the records led to a decade of research on his life.

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Éditeur
Matador
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1788039211
ISBN 13 
9781788039215
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
432
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