Fox-Hound, Forest, and Prairie

Pennell Elmhurst

• Publisher: Read Country Books
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473349810
• Print ISBN:
  9781473327238

This vintage book contains a collection of late nineteenth-century hunting anecdotes and reminiscences. Interesting and informative, these detailed accounts will appeal to those with an interest in historical hunting, and will also be of utility to modern hunters. Contents include: "Jackal Hunting on the Neilgherries, 1877", "The Ootacamund Hounds", "Grass Countries, Season 1886-87", "Shooting Coats", "The Galloping Whip", "Preliminary Canters", "Fox-Hunting in Earnest", "A Rough Week", "A Huntsman's Diary, and Mine", etc. 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• A Brief Introduction to Fox Hunting
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Contents
• Full-Page Illustrations
• My Earliest Shikar.
• The Prince of Wales at Madras, 1875
• A Leicestershire Season, 1882–83
• Jackal Hunting on the Neilgherries, 1876
• The Southern Midlands, Season 1885–86
• Jackal Hunting on the Neilgherries, 1877
• Grass Countries, Season 1886–87
• The Wild Stag on Exmoor
• Roebuck Shooting on the Banks of the Rhine
• Grass Countries, Season 1887–88
• Western Cattle Lands
• Hunting a Christmas Dinner
• Grass Countries, Season 1888–89
• Prairie Life
• The New Forest in Spring
• Grass Countries, Season 1889–90
• The Road
• The New Forest in August
• Grass Countries, Season 1890–91