RED LETTER DAYS: HUNTING ACROSS THE BRITISH ISLES. By Rory Knight Bruce.

2008 1st edition. 8vo (162 x 240mm). Pp176. B/w illustrations by Judith Stowell, bibliography. Maroon cloth, spine titled in gilt.

"He was a huntsman's son who never got on a horse until he was thirty. In the past twenty years, Rory Knight Bruce has hunted on more strange horses with more packs of hounds in Britain than any man alive. He has also been master of three packs, in Wales, Wiltshire and his native Devon." Stories from the author's hunting career, "acutely observed but with real care and feeling for both hunting, personalities and the countryside." Chapters include:- Birth; My father; The farm; An Irish childhood; Sussex; Stowe; Edinburgh; The Lake District; The Spectator; Shropshire; The United Pack; London; Scotland; Ireland; France; Bullfighting; Gloucestershire; Yorkshire; The Tedworth; The Marches and The West Country; The Torrington Farmers'; Hounds; Home.