The Great Shoots: Britain's Finest Shooting Estates - Past and Present by Brian P. Martin
Model Number: 9781846892783
£35.00 GBP
The definitive celebration of the finest shoots.
Now in its third edition and completely enlarged, expanded and updated, this comprehensive history and survey of gameshooting in the UK, both as it was and as it stands today, includes over 170 of the finest shooting estates from the most famous high-bird shoots to many privately owned estates, some belong to the rich and famous. Brian Martin provides a rare insight into their social lives with fascinating comment on their own estates and the inter-relationship between shooting and conservation, and the important contribution to the general welfare of our flora and fauna by the overwhelming majority of shoot proprietors.
In The Great Shoots, before detailing the history and present sport of each estate, region by region, the author sets the scene by outlining the history of gameshooting in Britain: the changing attitude of society; how economics and the pressures of modern society have played an increasingly important part; how technical developments have shaped both gunmaking and game rearing, and much more.
Hardback.