Book Description

This extensive, dependable dictionary, provides etymology, definition and examples of words associated with the fauna (chased and chasers), country lore and implements of Field Sports - words which enhance our everyday language even when it has lost its memory of their source, or which illuminate the history of the first art of survival: hunting. Lovers of the countryside, whether ramblers, bird-watchers or ecologists, will relish it; so will hunting, crossword and scrabble enthusiasts.