The World's Greatest Shooting Stories
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The World's Greatest Shooting Stories by Tom Quinn
- Stories of big-game hunting in Africa and India in the nineteenth century, Edwardian pheasant and grouse shooting, and sport in the modern world - Great shooting characters of the past--men like Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey and Colonel Peter Hawker The World's Greatest Shooting Stories is a collection of remarkable true-life tales from across the world, focusing on the past two hundred years of sporting shooting. This delightful book covers wildfowling tales, stories of poachers, inexplicable incidents, ghostly happenings, and one in a million shots. Everything from Russian secret service sportsmen who took pot shots at the beaters to American diplomats who went wildfowling by helicopter.
Tom Quinn has fished the world over and is editor of Country Landowner magazine. He was the former assistant editor of Trout & Salmon and has written more than twenty books about the countryside and fishing, including Heaven Upon Earth (978-1-904057-67-3) and The Whisky Companion (978-1-84525-011-9).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846890840 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846890845 |
| Title | The World's Greatest Shooting Stories |
| Author | Tom Quinn |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quiller Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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