A fascinating history of the sporting lodge, beautifully illustrated throughout, covering the classic, most interesting and unusual shooting, stalking, fishing and hunting lodges, bothies, huts, boxes, castles and barns. Including wall trophies, gun cabinets, game books and much more, these tales from the past and anecdotes from the present combine together to create a superb read for anyone interested in country sports and rural social history. In this superb book, the authors explore some of the history of the sporting lodge in both words and evocative photographs and, in addition, identify and detail buildings that are still in use today. AUTHOR: J C Jeremy Hobson has been respected for many years as an author, shoot captain and occasional broadcaster on all matters rural. He has been responsible for scores of magazine articles since his first was published in 1976. His previous titles for Quiller include Success with Chickens and The Shoot Lunch.
David S D Jones has been the archivist and historian for the National Gamekeepers Organisation for over a decade. Descended from a long line of gamekeepers, he is keenly interested in shooting and gamekeeping history and has written extensively on the subject for over a decade, contributing numerous articles to all of the major British sporting titles. SELLING POINTS: . An extensive and fascinating history of the sporting lodge that also identifies and details buildings that are still in use today . Details how sportsmen and their families traveled and includes a re-enactment of an Edwardian railway journey from London to the Outer Hebrides . Examples of itemised billing, food orders, contents of the rod-room/tack-room and gun-room as well as sporting registers . A comprehensive display of modern-day luncheon lodges in current use on private shooting estates Colour throughout