Sporting Lodges - Sanctuaries, Havens and Retreats

An extensive and fascinating history of the sporting lodge that also identifies and details buildings that are still in use today

Details how sportsmen and their families traveled and includes a reenactment of an Edwardian railway journey from London to the Outer Hebrides

Examples of itemized billing, food orders, contents of the rodroom/tack-room and gun-room are included

A comprehensive display of modern-day luncheon lodges in current use on private shooting estates

Tales and anecdotes from the past and present

About the author

Jeremy Hobson has been a professional freelance writer and author since 2004 but began writing long before that. He is a Member of the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists, with countless magazine articles and over 30 published book titles to his name. Jeremy’s subject matter is generally rural-based, on field sports; farming; smallholdings; chicken-keeping and working dogs.
David S. D. Jones has been an archivist and historian for the National Gamekeepers’ Organisation for over a decade. He is descended from a long line of outdoor servants employed on country estates throughout England and Wales and numbers amongst his ancestors and relatives gamekeepers; hunt servants; gardeners; grooms; woodmen; farm workers; land agents and more. He owns the Gamekeeping Photographic Archive and the David S. D. Jones Photographic Collection.

Summary

The informative, lively text describes life in the lodge both then and now with glorious first-hand accounts as well as incidental snippets explaining general shooting lodge fare and dining rituals of times past. Gun-rooms and rod-rooms, game books, fishing registers and hunting diaries are all covered.

Product details

• Authors: J C Jeremy Hobson, J. C. Jeremy Hobson, Jeremy Hobson, Jeremy J.C. Hobson, Hobson J. C. Jeremy, David S D Jones, David S. D. Jones, Jones David S. D.
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2013
• EAN: 9781846891687
• ISBN: 978-1-84689-168-7
• Dimensions: 189 mm x 246 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 67 g
• Illustrations: Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SPORTS & RECREATION / Hunting, SPORTS & RECREATION / Fishing, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SPORTS & RECREATION / Shooting, Social and cultural history, Field sports: fishing, hunting, shooting