Some Unwritten Laws of Organized Foxhunting and Comments on the Usages of the Sport of Riding to Hounds in America
Some Unwritten Laws of Organized Foxhunting and Comments on the Usages of the Sport of Riding to Hounds in America

Author: Louis V. Breese

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2017-08-25

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 1473338859

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This book contains a classic guide to hunting, with information on how, when, and where to hunt. This book is highly recommended for those with an interest in the history of English fox hunting, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of vintage hunting literature. Contents include: "General", "Ad Infinitum", "Personal", "A Word to Landholders", "A Word Picture for Americans to Copy", "A Word as to Gossip", "As to the Huntsman", "Hunting Terms", "Names of Hounds", and "A Sportsman's Library". Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. This volume is being republished now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of fox hunting.

Six Centuries of Foxhunting
Six Centuries of Foxhunting

Author: M. L. Biscotti

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-06-23

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 144224190X

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Hunting literature had its beginnings as early as the fourteenth century, when nobles hunted stag, bear, fox, and other game on horseback. As foxhunting grew in popularity, literary works that covered the sport flourished, as well. In Six Centuries of Foxhunting: An Annotated Bibliography, M. L. Biscotti has compiled all books produced in Great Britain and the United States that pertain to, or mention, foxhunting with hounds. Arranged alphabetically by author, more than 2000 titles are included. Each entry features details such as place and year of publication, publisher, book size, page count, illustrations, and binding. Nearly every title is also annotated with a description of the book’s contents, and biographical sketches are provided for the most notable authors. Narratives, histories, illustrated works, verse, fiction, and even anti-hunting literature all have their place in this volume. Six Centuries of Foxhunting also features more than thirty images of book covers and foxhunting illustrations. With appendixes that contain author, title, and illustrator time lines, and separate author and title indexes, this comprehensive bibliography is a valuable resource for researchers, book dealers and collectors, and foxhunters.

Watching the English
Watching the English

Author: Kate Fox

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey

Published: 2014-07-08

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1857889177

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Updated, with new research and over 100 revisions Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English - which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English national character - features new and fresh insights on the unwritten rules and foibles of "squaddies," bikers, horse-riders, and more. Fox revisits a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. She demystifies the peculiar cultural rules that baffle us: the rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid pantomime rule. Class anxiety tests. The roots of English self-mockery and many more. An international bestseller, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look at the English and their society.