URBAN FOX MEMOIRS OF AN EDINBURGH POACHER BOB REDWATER THE CROWOOD PRESS LTD 2009 1st edition. 24 x 16 cm. 215 pp. HB/DJ URBAN Fox is a frank and humorous memoir that shares with us a lifetime of adventures and tells of one man's love of the countryside. Beautifully illustrated with evocative wood engravings. URBAN Fox will delight the reader with its tales of a hidden world. It celebrates a way of life that few will believe possible, that of the urban poacher. The hunting, be it with dogs, ferrets, boomerangs and longbows, takes place within the city limits of Edinburgh. The enemy of the city poacher is not the gamekeeper but the occasional red-faced pre-breakfast jogger gasping his way through the woods, scattering the wildlife. Spanning almost forty years of hunting, URBAN Fox begins with an enthusiastic young boy with a passion for egg collecting and bird watching and ends with a 'respectable' old man looking back on his hunter's life. These are memoirs tinged with a little guilt but few regrets. CONTENTS Growing Up in the City Flying the Nest Into Adulthood A Double Life Self- Sufficiency Living Off the Land Shotguns and Deer Hunting A 'Criminal' Record Fishing and Ferrets A Lurcher in the Family Hunting with a Lurcher That Sinking Feeling Brown Hares and White Hares A Very Black Day Life is Sweet Slowing Down

URBAN FOX
MEMOIRS OF AN EDINBURGH POACHER

BOB REDWATER

THE CROWOOD PRESS LTD
2009

First edition.
Urban Fox is a frank and humorous memoir that shares with us a lifetime of adventures and tells of one man's love of the countryside.

Beautifully illustrated with evocative wood engravings. Urban Fox will delight the reader with its tales of a hidden world. It celebrates a way of life that few will believe possible, that of the urban poacher. The hunting, be it with dogs, ferrets, boomerangs and longbows, takes place within the city limits of Edinburgh. The enemy of the city poacher is not the gamekeeper but the occasional red-faced pre-breakfast jogger gasping his way through the woods, scattering the wildlife.

Spanning almost forty years of hunting, UrbanFox begins with an enthusiastic young boy with a passion for egg collecting and bird watching and ends with a 'respectable' old man looking back on his hunter's life. These are memoirs tinged with a little guilt but few regrets.

CONTENTS
Growing Up in the City
Flying the Nest
Into Adulthood
A Double Life
Self- Sufficiency
Living Off the Land
Shotguns and Deer Hunting
A 'Criminal' Record
Fishing and Ferrets
A Lurcher in the Family
Hunting with a Lurcher
That Sinking Feeling
Brown Hares and White Hares
A Very Black Day
Life is Sweet
Slowing Down

24 x 16 cm. 215 pp.

Very good + condition. Price clipped dust jacket has a repaired tear at the front top corner and a little wear to the top edge. Book itself like new. 





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