Corrour A History of a Sporting Estate

Koerner and David Brian Dick (Signed Copy)

Verlag: Lisbet Koertnerand David Brian Dick, Hoddesdon, 1998

Beschreibung

This is a Fine Copy of this Book in full brown ribbed leather binding with gilt lettering to spine.Issued without dust-jacket and published privately by the Authors.The book has been Signed and Inscribed by both Authors to a Former member of the Mountain Rescue Service based in Fort William.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Lovely clean copy internally.Fascinating account of this beautiful Sporting Estate with old game bag stats including the number of Stags killed,average weight etc and also the number of Snipe,Ptarmigan,Hares,Ducks,Grouse and Black game shot.Corrour is a remote 55,000 acre Highland estate on the edge of Rannoch Moor and not too far from Fort William.The nearest public road is 17 miles from our train station.Before the nineteenth century, it was a wilderness where shepherds tendered their sheep and drovers took their cattle to market.These days it is a renound sporting estate that combines gentle and thoughtful land management with traditional Scottish values of hospitality.Great copy for the collector.Rare Signed Title 4to 132pp [1998]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 80887

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Corrour A History of a Sporting Estate

Verlag: Lisbet Koertnerand David Brian Dick, Hoddesdon

Erscheinungsdatum: 1998

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: First Edition