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The Poacher's Handbook by Ian Niall (Hardcover, 2003)
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Ian Niall wrote this masterpiece of country lore to retain the thrill of crossing the hills in the moonlight and of creeping up the woodside at dusk. He said, 'This book is about poaching in the old traditional style, the craft of men who knew and loved the countryside and invoked the unorthodox skills rather than the crude use of modern science to catch their game, which they took sparingly, as they needed it.' From the Poacher's Handbook you will learn how to retrieve a ferret from a deep burrow and how to train a dog, as well as the cunning ways of gamekeepers and the meaning in the changing flight of a loan pigeon. You are advised to walk softly and to listen long, when to run and when to stand still, the thing to do in the black hat of night and the way to read a flushed magpie and the laugh of the jay. Poet, countryman and scholar, Bernard O'Donaghue, wrote a foreword to this celebrated country classic which will delight a new generation of country lovers and collectors alike. The Poacher's Handbook was first published in 1950. Hailed as 'the outstanding of nature books', it was an immediate bestseller and achieved no less than 14 editions before being republished in 1960 as The New Poacher's Handbook but without Barbara Greg's wood engravings. Since then there have been two separate paperback editions and total sales of over 100,000. This edition is a re-issue of the original format and includes Barbara Greg's highly-acclaimed wood engravings.Product Identifiers
PublisherMerlin Unwin Books
ISBN-139781873674581
eBay Product ID (ePID)86709406
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Poacher's Handbook
IllustratorBarbara Greg
AuthorIan Niall
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicNature
Publication Year2003
GenreSports
Number of Pages144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height216mm
Item Width138mm
Item Weight342g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorIan Niall
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 25 Dec, 2022
Back to the woods.
I got this as a present for a gamekeeper friend so he may be a better reviewer than I can be.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
