American Foxhunting
Author | : Alexander Mackay-Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Fox hunting |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alexander Mackay-Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Fox hunting |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Winants |
Publisher | : Derrydale Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2002-08-12 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1461734673 |
Foxhunting is in Melvin Poe's blood. As a child, he hunted with hounds owned by his grandfather and father in Rappahannock County, Virginia, and he became the professional huntsman for the Old Dominion Hounds for 16 seasons and the Orange County Hunt for 27 years. He is now, at age 82, in his eleventh year as huntsman for the Bath County Hounds. In 1979, Melvin was featured in the film documentary "Thoughts on Hunting. "Author Peter Winants, a lifelong foxhunter, has been the field master at Bath County since the founding of the hunt in 1992. His book ably captures the essence of one of the most legendary and colorful characters in American foxhunting. In addition to Melvin's upbringing, chapters deal with breeding and training foxhounds, his techniques in finding and hunting foxes and the strategies that have led to immense success through the years at hound shows. The final chapter, "Thanks, Melvin," has testimonials from a number of prominent foxhunters who have enjoyed sport with Melvin, including Benjamin H. Hardaway III, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Senator John W. Warner. Foxhunting With Melvin Poe is must reading for foxhunters and anyone who enjoys the countryside and nature.
Author | : M. L. Biscotti |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2017-06-23 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 144224190X |
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.
Author | : Mary Motley Kalergis |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2017-04-15 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1564162168 |
This oral history of foxhunting examines the mentors and influences of fifty people who have dedicated their lives to the sport of horse and hound. From the seventy some years of hound breeding experience of Melvin Poe, to the unusual story of a retired grandmother who decided to overcome her fear of horses and got her colors with Red Rock Hounds on her seventieth birthday, this oral history explores the depth and the breadth of foxhunting through the faces and voices of fifty different people who have been a tremendous influence on the sport or whose lives have been tremendously influenced by foxhunting. These oral histories are accompanied by beautiful black and white portraits taken by photographer Mary Kalergis.The recollected sights, sounds and scents of foxhunting shared within these pages are a feast for the senses and nourish the soul.
Author | : Martin Wallen |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2006-12-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781861892973 |
This book is the first to fully explore the fox as the object of both derision and fascination, from the forests of North America to the deserts of Africa to the Arctic tundra.
Author | : Grosvenor Merle-Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781736088555 |
Author | : Martha Wolfe |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2015-11-02 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1586671545 |
In November 1905, the peak of foxhunting season across the Midlands of England and up and down the east coast of North America, two towns in Virginia saw the coming of illustrious and wealthy men. There was to be a contest, a Great Hound Match, between two packs of foxhounds, one English and one American. The English hounds carried, on their great stout forearms and deep chests, the monumental weight of centuries of foxhunting in England and were expected to make their hound dog ancestors proud of their New World conquest. The American hounds were expected to show those stodgy old Brits how it was done over here—with spunk and intuition, individuality, drive, and nerve. This book chronicles this ostentatious match of Britain versus America at the turn of the century.
Author | : Luke Francis Beirne |
Publisher | : Baraka Fiction |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2022-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781771862714 |
1949: Milne Lowell, a Canadian writer, moves to London to edit a magazine dedicated to cultural freedom. His colleagues include Marguerite Allard, a French-Canadian anarchist, Eric Felmore, an American novelist, and Carson Ward, a British poet. Initially, the group is enthusiastic about the championship of freedom; however, uncertainty grows as unsettling encounters begin to unfold and the peripheral violence of the Cold War closes in. Foxhunt is an atmospheric exploration of passivity, loyalty, and literature in times of political upheaval. Firmly entrenched in the literary milieu of the era, it carries the reader through shell-shocked streets with suspense and intrigue.
Author | : Norman Fine |
Publisher | : Derrydale Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2010-08-16 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1461661390 |
A collection of thirty-two foxhunting stories populated by horses, hounds, challenging obstacles, and unforgettable personalities. Accompany Norman Fine to Ireland, England, Canada, and across the United States as he meets, hunts with, and is educated by the foremost Masters, huntsmen, hound breeders, and sporting historians of the last fifty years. Fine's stories, most of them previously published in the U.S. and England, are connected chronologically by new material in which the author explains how he came to meet these larger-than-life characters, what role they played in his development from horseman to foxhunter, and how he came to hunt with their hounds.