- Hardcover: 136 pages
- Publisher: Quiller Press; N.e.of 2r.e. edition (31 Jan 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1899163387
- ISBN-13: 978-1899163380
- Product Dimensions: 25.2 x 19.6 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales. In the second half of the nineteenth century, society discovered a new diversion: the shooting party. With plenty of new illustrations and anecdotes it provides even more entertaining insights into the elaborate and often hilarious ritual which surrounded these parties.
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It must be very difficult for people not brought up in the countryside to understand the strange, paradoxical relationship between shooting gamebirds and the conservation, or stewardship, of a diverse and beautiful natural habitat. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
It must be very difficult for people not brought up in the countryside to understand the strange, paradoxical relationship between shooting gamebirds and the conservation, or stewardship, of a diverse and beautiful natural habitat. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is a light hearted account of the activities of the English aristocracy at play in the period before the first world war. A time when the 'well to do' where not treated to the same hostle treatment, some would say, they receive today. The country house parties where centred around the "great battue" of the game coverts where Kings, Lords, Earls and landed gentry of Europe converged to shoot large bags of pheasants and partridge and where the women spent countless hours preparing themselves for the evening balls and entertainment(which was often a play performed by the house party guests themselves). The book although centred around the shooting and the roles of the 'supporting cast',needed to provide such an extravagant show of birds, gives an insight into the attitudes of the ruling monarch at that time and the political world unravaling before them. It is not meant to be a history book for academics . But this does not distract from the detail and accuracy regarding the many key players featured in the book and some of the scandal that surrounded the 'Prince of Wales Set' at that time.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
A glimpse of Victorian shoot parties and their manners.
7 Dec 1998
Format:Hardcover
Set in an periord when England was master of the world politic, the upperclass entertained themselves and their families with elaborate weekend shooting parties for driven game on their country estates. These remarkable individuals and their peculiarities, fancies, and foibles are described in an engaging English writing style. A great read for hunters and historians.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
The Big Shots: Edwarian Shooting Parties
8 July 2008
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Jonathan Ruffer's book is an interesting and useful historical look at English sport shooting at the beginning of the 20th century. It is a book of the social customs of the day as well as driven bird shoots in England. There are many photographs of the era of prominent people who were involved in the large and prestigious shoots taking place on large estates -- including members of Britain's Royal Family. Nothing stays the same, of course, but this book does capture a certain period of English social history between the Boer War and the Great War which was never to fully return to England after 1918. This book is recommended to both sports shooters who desire an historical look back as well as readers desiring a look at England's social class structure and habits in the early 20th century.
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