THE HUNTING GENE: HUNTING - ITS PEOPLE; ITS WILDLIFE AND ITS COUNTRYSIDE. By Robin Page.

2000 September 2000 reprint. 4to (192 x 254mm). Pp240. Colour photographs and paintings, cream end-papers. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

Robin Page, "a non-hunting, non-shooting, non-fishing countryman and conservationist", defends hunting and its place in the countryside and examines the ignorance and hypocrisy of the anti-hunting lobby. Chapters include: Animal Farm; The hunting gene; The hunting partnership; Enter Bambi; The running hare; The hunted hare; A hunting we will go; The farmer's fox; The running of the deer; The menace of mink; Fact and fiction; Liberty! Equality! Lunacy!