Tales of a Rat-Hunting Man
Author: David Brian Plummer
Publisher: COCH Y BONDDU BOOKS
Published: 2000-10
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780953364879
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Brian Plummer
Publisher: COCH Y BONDDU BOOKS
Published: 2000-10
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780953364879
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Judith Cook
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2006-04-20
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 0752495097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With the help of anecdotes, this book aims to recreate the lives and times of the playwrights and actors such as, Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Jonson, as well as the world in which they lived from 1578 when Burbage built the first 'purpose built' theatre to 1620 when the great age came to its end.
Author: Stephen J. Bodio
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013-09-17
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0762799676
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For hunters, listening to the accounts of kindred spirits recalling the drama and action that go with good days afield ranks among life's most pleasurable activities. This newly updated volume - with an introduction by editor Stephen J. Bodio -- contains some of the best hunting tales ever written, stories that sweep from charging elephants in the African bush to mountain goats in the mountain crags of the Rockies, from the gallant bird dogs of the Southern pinelands to the great Western hunts of Theodore Roosevelt. Stories include: The Wilderness Hunter by Theodore Roosevelt Tige’s Lion by Zane Grey Lobo: The King of Currumpaw by Ernest Seton-Thompson My Antelope by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson The Alaskan Grizzly by Harold McCracken Wolf-Hunting in Russia by Henry T. Allen Hunting on the Turin Plain by Roy Chapman Andrews
Author: Seán Frain
Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781861267412
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rat hunting is extremely popular and combines the excitement of a sport with the necessary control of a pest. This practical book is full of advice gleaned from years of experience, and tells you everything you need to know, from identifying likely locations to the techniques required in your chosen method of ratting. Including anecdotes that both amuse and inform, and fully illustrated with photographs and diagrams, this book contains all the information you need for success.
Author: David Brian Plummer
Publisher: COCH Y BONDDU BOOKS
Published: 1997-12
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780952851066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Plummer's reminiscences of his early lurchers and the men that bred them, of poaching, coursing and dog-fighting, with his views on the different crosses used in breeding lurchers. "An excellent book about lurchers and their raffish owners." (Shooting Times).
Author: Cristina García
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0307416100
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this deeply stirring novel, acclaimed author Cristina García follows one extraordinary family through four generations, from China to Cuba to America. Wonderfully evocative of time and place, rendered in the lyrical prose that is García’s hallmark, Monkey Hunting is an emotionally resonant tale of immigration, assimilation, and the prevailing integrity of self.
Author: Michael Rosen
Publisher: Walker Books Limited
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9781406323924
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →We're going on a bear hunt. Through the long wavy grass, the thick oozy mud and the swirling, whirling snowstorm - will we find a bear today?
Author: Meg Rosoff
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2009-08-06
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1101105402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A tender and magical tale from the 2016 recipient of the Astrid Lindgren award and author of international bestseller How I Live Now, National Book Award finalist Picture Me Gone, and most recently Jonathan Unleashed Pell Ridley, daughter of a good-for-nothing preacher in mid-nineteenth century England, has watched her mother crushed by the burden of too many children and too little money. Unwilling to repeat her fate, Pell runs away on her wedding day taking only her beautiful, white horse. But, as she journeys through a strange world of gypsies in search of a new life, Pell finds that her ties to home refuse to release her. Like the works of Philip Pullman and Sue Monk Kidd, The Bride's Farewell will resonate with readers of all ages as it grapples with timeless questions of how to live, how to love, and how to be true to one's self.
Author: Jay Hammond
Publisher: Epicenter Press
Published: 1996-06
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780945397434
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The former governor of Alaska recounts his childhood, education, war experiences, and political career