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The Grandeur of the Dooms. Sacred and Profane Adventures of a Modern American Among the English and European Aristocracy.
Crispin Culbertson
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Hardback. Travel with Luke Randolph as he meets the wackiest and most uninhibited collection of characters ever to cut a swath through the exclusive clubs and ancestral homes of the English and European upper classes. Here is a world where firelight reflects off polished brass, the Viennese snow squeaks underfoot, and skeet is shot in the drawing room. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
Travel with Luke Randolph as he meets the wackiest and most uninhibited collection of characters ever to cut a swath through the exclusive clubs and ancestral homes of the English and European upper classes. Here is a thoroughly modern, sometimes madcap, sometimes serious perspective on the social worlds of thoroughbred racing, bobsledding, foxhunting, and boar stalking, and a lifestyle that, though waning, continues to fascinate us. Grandeur of the Dooms transports the reader from the creamy shade of Buck's tent at Ascot to the search for a dissolute and dangerous Mexican jockey in a Texas border town; to St. ... Read more
Travel with Luke Randolph as he meets the wackiest and most uninhibited collection of characters ever to cut a swath through the exclusive clubs and ancestral homes of the English and European upper classes. Here is a thoroughly modern, sometimes madcap, sometimes serious perspective on the social worlds of thoroughbred racing, bobsledding, foxhunting, and boar stalking, and a lifestyle that, though waning, continues to fascinate us. Grandeur of the Dooms transports the reader from the creamy shade of Buck's tent at Ascot to the search for a dissolute and dangerous Mexican jockey in a Texas border town; to St. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Derrydale Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Missoula, United States
ISBN
9781586671068
SKU
V9781586671068
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About Crispin Culbertson
Crispin Culbertson was educated at private schools in the South and at Oxford University in England. He has won numerous writing awards, including the fiction and poetry categories of the southern Sesquicentennial Creative Arts Contest and an American Horse Publications national award for fiction. He is an accomplished horseman and has hunted, stalked, and shot extensively in England, Scotland, Austria, ... Read more
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