Description:A fascinating and comprehensive book on the history of gamekeeping since the inception of the profession in the late seventeenth century, until the present time. He writes about all aspects of gamekeeping with chapters on training, pay, cottages, gamekeepers in wartime, loaders and loading, lady gamekeepers, gamekeeping throughout the UK, Ireland and overseas, especially in the days of the British empire. There is an interesting section on the moorland gamekeeper which includes the memories of George Grass of Ramsgill.
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David S D Jones has been an archivist and historian for the National Gamekeepers' Organisation for over a decade. Descended from a long line of gamekeepers, he's keenly interested in shooting and gamekeeping history and has written extensively on the subject of gamekeeping over the past thirty years, contributing numerous articles to all of the major British sporting titles. In addition, he owns the Gamekeeping Photographic Archive and the David S D Jones Photographic Collection, both of which supply historic shooting, gamekeeping and general countryside images to the sporting press.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gamekeeping: An Illustrated History by David D. S. Jones (24-Jul-2014) Hardcover. To get started finding Gamekeeping: An Illustrated History by David D. S. Jones (24-Jul-2014) Hardcover, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Gamekeeping: An Illustrated History by David D. S. Jones (24-Jul-2014) Hardcover
Description: A fascinating and comprehensive book on the history of gamekeeping since the inception of the profession in the late seventeenth century, until the present time. He writes about all aspects of gamekeeping with chapters on training, pay, cottages, gamekeepers in wartime, loaders and loading, lady gamekeepers, gamekeeping throughout the UK, Ireland and overseas, especially in the days of the British empire. There is an interesting section on the moorland gamekeeper which includes the memories of George Grass of Ramsgill.
The Author
David S D Jones has been an archivist and historian for the National Gamekeepers' Organisation for over a decade. Descended from a long line of gamekeepers, he's keenly interested in shooting and gamekeeping history and has written extensively on the subject of gamekeeping over the past thirty years, contributing numerous articles to all of the major British sporting titles. In addition, he owns the Gamekeeping Photographic Archive and the David S D Jones Photographic Collection, both of which supply historic shooting, gamekeeping and general countryside images to the sporting press.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gamekeeping: An Illustrated History by David D. S. Jones (24-Jul-2014) Hardcover. To get started finding Gamekeeping: An Illustrated History by David D. S. Jones (24-Jul-2014) Hardcover, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.