"Tales of a Rat-hunting Man" features tales of rats and of ratting men, dogs and ferrets.
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Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. Knowleden, Martin (illustrator). Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # rev4533677172
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Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Condition: new. Knowleden, Martin (illustrator). ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2001). (1978) 2001 new edition. 8vo (142 x 224mm). Pp142. B/w illustrations by Martin Knowelden. Orange boards, spine titled in silver gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. Brian Plummer holds forth on the subject of the rat, and his part in its downfall. With this book, "Brian Plummer scores again .This is a view of rats by someone who has spent much of his life pursuing them, and it is both a serious book on rats and their habits and a further instalment of his own autobiography, as eccentric and entertaining as before - not to say macabre (.hunting rats in a maggot factory?) .A fascinating book, invaluable to the hunter and terrier-owner." Chapters include: Black and brown rats - and never the twain shall meet; The Real McCoy - the brown rat; The hunting of the rat; Ferrets; Ratting dogs; The rat pits; Training a terrier to rat; Of rats and men; Mexborough, glorious Mexborough; The way south; The Midlands. . Seller Inventory # 9220
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