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Customs and Etiquette of the Hunting Field - With a Guide to the Language and Terms most often used in Fox Hunting
Rural sports are full of odd customs and etiquette and hunting is no exception. This helpful guide will let you navigate the minefield of dress and riding technique including a small guide to the language of the hunt.
Killing Tradition
Across the country and around the world, people avidly engage in the cultural practice of hunting. Children are taken on rite-of-passage hunting trips, where relationships are cemented and legacies are passed on from one generation to another. Meals are prepared from hunted game, often consisting of regionally specific dishes that reflect a community's heritage and character. Deer antlers and bear skins are hung on living room walls, decorations and relics of a hunter's most impressive kills. Only 5 percent of Americans are hunters, but that group has a substantial presence in the cultural consciousness. Hunting has spurred controversy in recent years, inciting protest from animal rights act...
Wild Games
"Humans understand at least some of what it means to be human, both literally and figuratively, in reference to wild animals. Our relationships with wildlife have traditionally been expressed in terms of hunting; more recently, these relationships have also been manifest as efforts to prevent hunting. Hunting and fishing traditions are, in fact, under fire by critics at the same time that they are receding of their own accord - perhaps becoming even more endangered than any of the pursued animals. These traditions form the major focus of Wild Games, a new collection of essays that looks at the folklore and culture of various hunting and fishing practices, documenting the central importance o...
The Forest of Essex
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The History of Opposition to Blood Sports in Twentieth Century England
An interdisciplinary social history, this book examines the major pressures and influences that brought about the remarkable growth of opposition to hunting in twentieth century England. With public opinion consistently deciding from the middle of the century onward that hunting mammals for sport was cruel and unacceptable, it would appear that the controversy over hunting has all but been decided, though hunting yet remains ‘at bay’. Based on a range of cultural, social, literary and political sources drawn from a variety of academic disciplines, including history, sociology, geography, psychology and anthropology, The History of Opposition to Blood Sports in Twentieth Century England a...
The Forest of Essex
Hardcover reprint of the original 1887 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. for quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Fisher, William Richard. the Forest of Essex: Its History, Laws, Administration and Ancient Customs, and the Wild Deer Which Lived In It. With Maps and Other Illustrations. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Fisher, William Richard. the Forest of Essex: Its History, Laws, Administration and Ancient Customs, and the Wild Deer Which Lived In It. With Maps and Other Illustrations, . London: Butterworths, 1887. Subject: Hunting
