ARAB FALCONRY: HISTORY OF A WAY OF LIFE. By Roger Upton. First edition.

2001 1st trade edition. Large 4to (220 x 288mm). Pp223 + 1pp ads. Colour photographs and illustrations by Mark Upton, line illustrations Peter Upton, pictorial end-papers, bibliography. Pictorial laminated boards.

Roger Upton has decades of experience as a falconer, practising the sport at home and abroad in a number of countries. Upton's great passion, however, is the falconry of the Arabian Peninsula. In this book, Roger Upton has "attempted to organize my many notes, thoughts and comments on Arab hawking. From my untaidy but detailed diaries, ...old articles, past treatises and present-day experiences, I hope that I have put together a readable story from which interested readers might learn something new." Chapters include; the Arab and falconry; hawks; trapping; furniture; training; quarry; hawking the houbara; hawking other quarry; at hunting camp or home.