Michael Clayton

Foxhunting in Paradise (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Foxhunting in Paradise, a major work of research and practical exploration in and around the hunting field, Michael Clayton brings entirely up to date histories of the Quorn, Belvoir, Cottesmore and Fernie Hunts. He describes the glamour, the risks and the controversy surrounding hunting in the paradise of Leicestershire's ridge and furrow grasslands, divided by fly fences and dotted with fox coverts.

Royalty, captains of industry, young bloods from the services, and not a few fortune hunters and courtesans have been among those gracing the houses and hunting fields of Leicestershire. Yet the sport depends ultimately on the continued goodwill of the vast majority of Leicestershire's farmers and landowners, a prize which has always been retained. Clayton does not shrink from the essential conservation issues which he believes justify hunting, and he deals with the most recent accusations against the sport's conduct in Leicestershire.

Foxhunting in Paradise throws new light on a peculiarly British phenomenon in an area of understated beauty in the heart of England, described by the great hunting correspondent Nimrod thus: 'In the absence of all perfection, it is as a hunting country as nearly approaching to it as nature and art can make it, and its fame may be said to have reached the remotest corners of the civilised world'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448210473
• Artikelnr.: 38444515

Autorenporträt

Michael Clayton was born on the 20th November 1934. He is a journalist, author, broadcaster, and news correspondent for BBC radio and television. He was an editor for Horse and Hound between 1973 and 1994 and Editor-in-Chief between 1994 and 1997. He has also worked on Country Life, Shooting Times, The Field and Eventing.

He has been a prolific writer of novels and non-fiction since 1980.