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The Hunter's Hound
I am not an out-and-out dog trainer. Nor have I ever set out to train my hunting hounds to comply with the competition-type discipline demanded by field-trialling devotees. I am a hunter. My preferred shooting discipline, upon which I have built a solid reputation in the UK as a photo-journalist and author, is small vermin hunting with the air rifle. Throughout hundreds of magazine articles, blogs and two published books on the subject there has been a stalwart companion at my side. My lurcher, Dylan ... who is ten years old as I write this. His training, accomplished between puppy-hood and three years old was a long apprenticeship. My readers have shared the humour, frustration, often near-tragedy but mostly success that Dylan and I have enjoyed as a partnership. Those are stories for a future book. Over the years I have supplied myriad short articles to the country-sports press (and even chapters in my books) about how Dylan and I work together. I have finally succumbed to the many requests that I write a book on how I trained Dylan to work with the rifle.
A Year in Eden
Do you have an 'Eden'? A special place, a wilderness where you go to escape modern life's hustle and bustle. I have the privilege of such a sanctuary. Eden, of course, is not its real name. It is a very private place. A thousand acres of woodland, hedgerow, river, wild meadow, pasture and crops. Deep in the heart of Norfolk. In return for the privilege of walking there, my contribution is to help keep down the small vermin on the estate. The usual suspects ... rat, rabbit, grey squirrel, stoat, woodpigeon and corvid. Yet this book is rarely about that. This is not a managed, commercial shooting estate, though the wild game is encouraged to stay with a few feeders. This is purely for a couple...
Woodpigeon Control with an Air Rifle
The woodpigeon is a magnificent bird. There can be no denying that. It's flying aptitude, speed, agility and stamina are awesome. Nor can we deny the adaptability and evolution which has seen the species become the predominant avian pest species in Great Britain. To most people, the 'woodie' is an innocuous park and garden visitor that errs on the greedy side. Particularly for those with bird tables and vegetable gardens. It's soporific murmur, hidden amongst the leaves in summer trees, has become an iconic 'aestival' sound. For the crop grower, however, the woodie is an almost apocalyptic nuisance. It's proclivity for gathering in huge flocks and descending on new seed drillings, sprouting ...
Eva Perón
No Latin American woman has ever elicited such extreme feelings of love and hate as Eva Perón. She was an actress of humble origins who fell in love with and married the soon-to-be president of Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón. Evita, as she was fondly known, became the most powerful woman in Argentine history. Adored by the masses and loathed by the bourgeoisie, Evita polarized Argentine society. Not even her death could put an end to the mixed feelings she aroused during her lifetime, and Evita remains till this day a controversial figure. Eva Perón: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works captures Evita’s eventful life, her works, and her legacy. The volume features a chronology that in...
CIMA Exam Practice Kit Management Accounting Performance Evaluation
Aimed at independent students or those on tutored revision courses, CIMA exam practice kits supplement the official CIMA study systems and revision cards with additional questions and material focused purely on applying what students have learned to passing the exam.
Moving Verses
From Wild Tales to Zama, Argentine cinema has produced some of the most visually striking and critically lauded films of the 2000s. Argentina also boasts some of the most exciting contemporary poetry in the Spanish language. What happens when its film and poetry meet on screen? Moving Verses studies the relationship between poetry and cinema in Argentina. Although both the “poetics of cinema” and literary adaptation have become established areas of film scholarship in recent years, the diverse modes of exchange between poetry and cinema have received little critical attention. The book analyses how film and poetry transform each another, and how these two expressive media behave when pla...
30 Years After
Thirty years after the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands, the war remains a source of continued debate and analysis for politicians, historians and military strategists. Not only did the conflict provide a fascinating example of modern expeditionary warfare, but it also brought to the fore numerous questions regarding international law, sovereignty, the inheritance of colonialism, the influence of history on national policy and the use of military force for domestic political uses. As the essays in this collection show, the numerous facets of the Falklands War remain current today and have ramifications far beyond the South Atlantic. Covering issues ranging from military strategy ...
Patagonia
Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encompass an evocative idea of place. A vast triangle at the southern tip of the New World, this region of barren steppes, soaring peaks and fierce winds was populated by small tribes of hunter-gatherers and roaming nomads when Ferdinand Magellan made landfall in 1520. A fateful moment for the natives, this was the start of an era of adventure and exploration. Soon Sir Francis Drake and John Byron, and sailors from Europe and America, would be exploring Patagonia's bays and ...
Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolutions, Portugal steadily pursued reforms to tie its American, African and European territories more closely together. Eventually, after a period of revival and prosperity, the Luso-Brazilian world also succumbed to revolution, which ultimately resulted in Brazil's independence from Portugal. The first of its kind in the English language to examine the Portuguese Atlantic World in the period from 1750 to 1850, this book reveals that despite formal separation, the links and relationships that survived the demise of empire entwined the historical trajectories of Portugal and Brazil even more tightly than before. From constitutionalism to economic policy to the problem of slavery, Portuguese and Brazilian statesmen and political writers laboured under the long shadow of empire as they sought to begin anew and forge stable post-imperial orders on both sides of the Atlantic.
