| Title | : | Shooting's Strangest Days |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Tom Quinn |
| Release | : | 2015-07-30 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Sports & Outdoors, Books, Lifestyle & Home, Pets, Nonfiction, Social Science, Biographies & Memoirs, Historical Bios & Memoirs, Science & Nature, Nature, Outdoors, Humor |
| Size | : | 2441321 |
| Mad old colonels who took their trousers off before going elephant hunting, women poachers with terriers sewn into their underskirts, duck shooters chasing their quarry in helicopters – here they all in their vast and until now, long forgotten, eccentricity. Shooting's Strangest Days is a unique collection of stories about the mad, the bad and the truly dangerous to know from more than two hundred years of sporting shooting. Covering everything from delightfully dotty Royals – like George V, who always went shooting with a gun loader deliberately chosen because he looked exactly like the king – to obscure French chamois hunters, South American crocodile stranglers, Russian secret service beaters and suicidal Himalayan goat guides. |
