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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Leaves, From The Records Of St. Hubert'S Club: Or Reminiscences Of Sporting Expeditions In Many Lands

Leaves, From The Records Of St. Hubert'S Club: Or Reminiscences Of Sporting Expeditions In Many Lands

E. Bulger, George

Paperback

General ReferenceTravel WritingGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354485588
ISBN13: 9789354485589
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Across oceans, frontiers, and forgotten tracks, the gentlemen of St Hubert's Club chased sport and story with equal zeal, returning home to set down the days that altered them. High sport, in strange lands. Leaves, From The Records Of St. Hubert's Club gathers those recollections into a classic hunting memoir and sporting travel narrative collection, rich with the texture of camp, track, and clubhouse talk. From tense big game hunting stories to quieter moments among friends, these pages evoke the codes, risks, and camaraderie of club and field sports during the great age of sporting expeditions abroad. First published in the high Victorian age, George E. Bulger's reminiscences reveal not only adventure but the codes, class, and conversation of victorian era hunting at home and overseas, a vivid chapter in nineteenth century sporting travel and british sporting literature. For field sports enthusiasts and hunting history readers, this vintage hunting memoir collection opens a rare window onto classic safari adventure books as they were actually lived and recalled, shaped by distance, discomfort, and a demanding ideal of fair play. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Equally suited to the casual reader of adventure and to the serious collector of club and field sports writing, it preserves a world of sporting expeditions abroad in the voices of those who knew it best.

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