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Shooting: A Season of Discovery - Duchess Emma Rutland, Jane Pruden

Shooting: A Season of Discovery

Buch | Hardcover
196 Seiten
2012
Quiller Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84689-146-5 (ISBN)
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The Shooting Season - A Journey of Discovery is a fascinating and revealing guide to some of the UK's most significant shoots, both large and small, and the people who shoot and work there.
Co-hosting one of the country's finest partridge and pheasant shoots with her husband The Duke of Rutland, The Duchess (Emma) assumed she knew about shooting. Wrong. Talking to and watching every Gun, loader, beater and their dog - at their home, Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire - slowly exposed a gaping chasm in her understanding of the sport and its relevance to our countryside. Undaunted, in just one season, she set herself a herculean task to visit over twenty contrasting shoots including John Dodd's grouse moor at Glenogil, Lord Barnard's wild bird day at Raby Castle, Michael Cannon's partridge shoot at Stagfell, Caerhays for pheasants in Cornwall, wildfowling with Brent Pope in Norfolk, pigeon shooting with Will Garfit and western Ireland for woodcock. She spanned the far extremities of the UK meeting many dedicated people who are passionate about their sport. It was enormous fun but not without a few shocks and surprises. She learns that shooting today is as much about conservation, bio-diversity and the sustainability of rural communities as it is a fun and challenging pastime for the half million people that shoot game a year. It is also fraught with politics - a moot and pertinent factor that will shape and determine its future. She joins the Guns on all the shoots and goes behind the scenes to talk to the people that it make it happen. Crucially, shooting provides game meat. The book is peppered with recipes from generations of family favourites from Belvoir Castle's kitchen; cooked and updated by TV chef, Mike Robinson. Stunning photography, history, extraordinary anecdotes and accounts of some of the country's finest shooting will inspire and educate country lovers, shooters and cooks alike. This impressive hardback volume will be enhanced with photographs by leading country sports photographer, Charles Sainsbury-Plaice. The launch will take place in July 2012 at the CLA Game Fair, which is to be held at Belvoir Castle.

Emma: The Duchess of Rutland is the chatelaine of Belvoir Castle - one of England's great houses with a renowned art collection and accompanying sporting estate. www.belvoircastle.com Jane Pruden is a freelance writer specialising in country life, field sports, heritage and food. She is a regular contributor to national magazines.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.7.2012
Sprache englisch
Maße 267 x 267 mm
Gewicht 103 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Angeln / Jagd
ISBN-10 1-84689-146-9 / 1846891469
ISBN-13 978-1-84689-146-5 / 9781846891465
Zustand Neuware
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