The Poacher's Handbook by Ian Niall
From the Poacher's Handbook you will learn how to retrieve a ferret from a deep burrow and how to train a dog, as well as the cunning ways of gamekeepers and the meaning in the changing flight of a loan pigeon. Walk softly, listen long, learn when to run and when to stand still and what to do in the black hat of night.
Ian Niall (1916-2002) was the pen name of John McNeillie, author of over forty books on country matters, including The Poacher's Handbook and The Way of a Countryman. In 1990 he celebrated forty years as a columnist, at one point both for The Spectator and for Country Life where he was known and loved by a wide public for his weekly ‘Countryman’s Notes’. He was born in Scotland and he spent his formative years on his grandfather’s farm in Wigtownshire, recalled in A Galloway Childhood. He and his wife then lived in Wales and, later, the Chilterns. They had three children. His son Andrew McNeillie, Professor Emeritus at Exeter University, is the author of a biographical memoir of his father, Ian Niall: Part of his Life.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781873674581 |
| ISBN 10 | 1873674589 |
| Title | The Poacher's Handbook |
| Author | Ian Niall |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Merlin Unwin Books |
| Year published | 2003-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
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