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Edité par Swan Hill Press. Shrewsbury, Shropshire. 1991., 1991
ISBN 10 : 1853101850ISBN 13 : 9781853101854
Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Livre Edition originale
(Hardcover, 1991). (1989) 1991 1st UK edition. 4to (235 x 305mm). Pp144. Colour photographs throughout. Blue cloth, upper board and spine titled in silver-gilt. Slightly dusty but good-plus in used dust-wrapper. A photographic celebration of fly-fishing. "If you only ever get one picture book about fly fishing, make sure this is it. Casting Illusions is a classic and if you aren't totally gripped by the sensational photography by page 6, you should take up golf. This is the book that made me visit America. It contains my all time favourite fishing photograph (Valentine Atkinson's rainbow in a net on page 66) as well as the next dozen runners up. It is no exaggeration to say that some of the shots will stay in your memory for ever." (Andrew Herd). .
Edité par Swan Hill Press. Shrewsbury, Shropshire. 1991., 1991
ISBN 10 : 1853101850ISBN 13 : 9781853101854
Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Livre Edition originale
(Hardcover, 1991). (1989) 1991 1st UK edition. 4to (235 x 305mm). Pp144. Colour photographs throughout. Blue cloth, upper board and spine titled in silver-gilt. Several pages sticking together slightly despite being a new, unread copy in dust-wrapper. A photographic celebration of fly-fishing. "If you only ever get one picture book about fly fishing, make sure this is it. Casting Illusions is a classic and if you aren't totally gripped by the sensational photography by page 6, you should take up golf. This is the book that made me visit America. It contains my all time favourite fishing photograph (Valentine Atkinson's rainbow in a net on page 66) as well as the next dozen runners up. It is no exaggeration to say that some of the shots will stay in your memory for ever." (Andrew Herd). PREVIOUS PRICE £19.95.
Edité par Swan Hill Press. Shrewsbury, Shropshire. 1991., 1991
ISBN 10 : 1853102911ISBN 13 : 9781853102912
Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Livre Edition originale
(Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. 4to (222 x 286mm). Pp128. Colour photographs, maps. Grey boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Many pages damaged having been previously stuck together therefore a reading copy only in dust-wrapper. A study of East African elephants and the effects of poaching in Kenya and Tanzania, based on the author's visits to Tsavo, Amboseli, the Masai Mara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Lake Mayara and Tarangire. .
Edité par Swan Hill Press. Shrewsbury, Shropshire. 1991., 1991
ISBN 10 : 1853101788ISBN 13 : 9781853101786
Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Livre Edition originale
(Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. 4to (187 x 248mm). Pp176. B/w photographs, illustrations. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight use else very good in like dust-wrapper. This is a "practical guide to sport with dog and gun and .a celebration of the simple pleasures of informal shooting. .A clear and concise guide to all the principal sporting quarry species, to sporting guns and cartridges and to the choice and training of a gundog. [Includes] helpful guidance on shoot management and habitat improvement for game and wildfowl". Foreword by Jonathan Young, editor of Shooting Times. Chapters include: The rough shooting ethos. Part 1 Getting Started: Basic woodcraft; Quarry recognition; The roughshooter's dog; Guns and cartridges; Clothes and equipment; Legal and ethical considerations. Part 2 Quarry and their Pursuit: Pheasants; Partridges; Woodcock; Snipe; Ground game; Wildfowl; Pigeons; Principles of decoying. Part 3 Managing the Shoot: Conservation and restocking policy; Habitat management; Predation control; Continuing care - leaving a healthy stock, food in winter, joining the crowd. .
Edité par Swan Hill Press. Shrewsbury, Shropshire. 1991., 2009
ISBN 10 : 1853102385ISBN 13 : 9781853102387
Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Livre
Etat : new. (Hardcover, 1991). (1983) 1991 new edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp176. B/w photographs. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt. From the publisher's archive with a label to the spine and a information bookplate to the end-paper. Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. A good guide to training H.P.R.'s, especially German Shorthaired Pointers, as all-round gundogs. .
Edité par Swan Hill Press. Shrewsbury, Shropshire. 1991., 1991
ISBN 10 : 1853101621ISBN 13 : 9781853101625
Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Livre Edition originale
(Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. Square 4to (196 x 252mm). Pp160. Colour photographs by Glyn Satterley, bibliography. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Spotting to end-papers and edges else internally clean. Good-plus in dust-wrapper. "The Highland estate is under threat - and with it is disappearing an ecological balance. Sometimes critical of Highland landlords [the author], examines conservation, employment and economics on that often misunderstood entity, the Highland sporting estate". Chapters include: The Long History; Sporting use in the Highlands; Grouse and management for grouse; Stalking and the stalker; Hill farming; Salmon; Trout; Other activities; Forestry; Politics, sporting use and access; The Dun Tenants of the Waste; Managing the silver harvest; Looking at the ground; Realities and alternatives; The challenge for sporting use; Bibliography. .