STAG-HUNTING ON EXMOOR. By Alfred Vowles, F.R.G.S. Illustrated.

1920 1st edition. Small 8vo paperback (125 x 185mm). Ppii[ads],x,50,ii[ads]. B/w photographs. Light brown card covers titled and illustrated in black.

Memories and descriptions of Exmoor stag-hunting, the idea of the book being conceived whilst the author was on service in Mesopotamia shortly before". Adventures with the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, the brilliant and memorable scenes at Cloutsham in the season, the moorlands, the villages, the coast and crowds of noble scenes associated with our beloved Exmoor country passed before me as a wonderful moving picture. Hosts of old friends and acquaintances, smiling men and maidens, rugged moormen and village children, hunters on horse and foot and rusting sporting 'characters' paraded before me in my wakeful dreams and reflections. It appealed to me that few people living outside the stag-hunting zones of North Devon and West Somerset seem to possess any practical knowledge concerning the gran and historic sport of the chase of the wild red deer or how it is carried on. ...The present little work is meant to be helpful to visitors - particularly the footers - who seek to be informed concerning this noble and royal pastime. Unlike those more fortunate, who ride to hounds, they have fewer opportunities to understand the proceedings during the many phases of a stag-hunt, hence this humble attempt to help them". Chapters include:- The Exmoor country; The wild red deer; The Devon and Somerset stag-hounds; Harbouring a warrantable stag; The meet; The tufting; The lay-on and a chat with footers left behind on Cloutsham Ball; The run and the morte; Two wonderful days; Winter hind-hunting.