Shooting's Strangest Days
| Author | : Tom Quinn |
| Publisher | : Portico |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2015-07-30 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781910232484 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1910232483 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (483 Downloads) |
Download or read book Shooting's Strangest Days written by Tom Quinn and published by Portico. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mad old colonels who took their trousers off before going elephant hunting, women poachers with terriers sewn into their underskirts, duck shooters chasing their quarry in helicopters - here they all in their vast and until now, long forgotten, eccentricity. Shooting's Strangest Days is a unique collection of stories about the mad, the bad and the truly dangerous to know from more than two hundred years of sporting shooting. Covering everything from delightfully dotty Royals - like George V, who always went shooting with a gun loader deliberately chosen because he looked exactly like the king - to obscure French chamois hunters, South American crocodile stranglers, Russian secret service beaters and suicidal Himalayan goat guides.
