TALES OF A RAT-HUNTING MAN. By Brian Plummer.

(1978) 2001 new edition. 8vo (142 x 224mm). Pp142. B/w illustrations by Martin Knowelden. Orange boards, spine titled in silver gilt.

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.