Author: Tom Quinn
Publisher: STACKPOLE BOOKS, Nov 2010
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1-84689-084-5
Synopsis
This is a collection of remarkable true-life tales from across the world, focusing on the past 200 years of sporting shooting. Covers wildfowling tales, stories of poachers, inexplicable incidents, ghostly happenings, & 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. B&W Illus.; 6x9 inches, 128 pgs.
More Information
# Stories of big-game hunting in Africa & India in the nineteenth century, Edwardian pheasant & grouse shooting, & sport in the modern world
# Great shooting characters of the past--men like Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey & 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, & 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Tom Quinn also wrote Heaven upon Earth.