Buy this book on-line BRANDER, MICHAEL: : A Hunt Around the Highlands: On the Trail of Colonel ThorntonTHE STANDFAST PRESS,1973. ISBN 0950214825.
UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, revised 2nd edn.(True 1st was published,MacGibbon & Kee,1961 and written by Douglas Saunders.)FINE/NFINE.No
owner inscrptn,but price-clipped to dw/dj.
Pictorial colour illustrated upper wrap (18thC hunting scene), to green background and white letters to upper wrap and spine/
backstrip,with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present and minimal bumping with reciprocal creasing to head+foot of spine/
backstrip.Top edge coloured pale green; fore-edge very slightly aged but generally clean,contents bright,tight and clean.
Publisher's original,unblemished, plain green cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with sepia line-illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, revised 2nd edn,10-239pp includes title+ half-title pages,colour frntis,author and publisher's foreword and preface respectively,contents+illustrations
lists,b/w folding map laid in to Chapter 1,12pp b/w illustrations/photograph,
appendices(3) and biblio to rear.
This is a travel book written on several time levels,written to all intents and purposes by two authors separated by a gap of 175 years.In 1959 Michael Brander followed the route allegedly taken by Colonel Thomas Thornton in 1784 during his classic 'Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland.'Although Thornton was famed as the leading all round field sportsman,huntsman,falconer, fisherman and shot,of his day,subsequent generations did not consider him dedicated to the truth.Quoting Thornton's comments Michael Brander noted discrepancies as well as parallels and contrasts between the scene described by the Colonel and that in 1959.Following the 175 year old trail,Brander found himself in effect hunting the Colonel,the finest huntsman of his time.In the event the book published originally as 'Soho for the Colonel' (from the 18thC hunting cry 'Soho' used to encourage hounds on a scent) itself became a recognised classic.
This revised version with colour cover and frntis and greatly improved illustrations also has an additional appendix covering the major changes in the scene since 1959.It remains a fascinating account of travel in the north of England and the Highlands of Scotland and of a successful hunt over the centuries conducted with zest on both sides.
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