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Foxhunting Adventures: Chasing the Story (The Derrydale Press Foxhunters' Library)
Norman Fine
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Description for Foxhunting Adventures: Chasing the Story (The Derrydale Press Foxhunters' Library)
Hardcover. Series: The Derrydale Press Foxhunters' Library. Num Pages: 272 pages, line drawings. BIC Classification: WSXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 671.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Derrydale Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Series
The Derrydale Press Foxhunters' Library
Condition
New
Weight
671 g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Missoula, United States
ISBN
9781564162120
SKU
V9781564162120
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Ref
99-15
About Norman Fine
Norman Fine is the creator and former editor of Covertside magazine, a publication of the Masters of Foxhounds Association of America. He is also editor of The Derrydale Press Foxhunters' Library. His articles on foxhunting have appeared in Covertside, The Chronicle of the Horse, and CLASSIC magazine in this country, and in Baily's, Hounds magazine, and Hunting with Country Illustrated ... Read more
Reviews for Foxhunting Adventures: Chasing the Story (The Derrydale Press Foxhunters' Library)
[Fine's] writings fairly capture the reader and take him headlong o'er the fences and the hedges of hunts from North America to the old sod of Ireland and England.
James L. Young, ex-MFH, Orange County Hunt, Marshall, Virginia The editor's "Introduction," the results of his skillful research..., is quite remarkable.
Paul Cronin, About The Derrydale Press Treasury of ... Read more
James L. Young, ex-MFH, Orange County Hunt, Marshall, Virginia The editor's "Introduction," the results of his skillful research..., is quite remarkable.
Paul Cronin, About The Derrydale Press Treasury of ... Read more