Big Game Shooting (Volume 1) - Phillipps-Wolley, Clive

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Résumé :
A crisp, adventurous invitation to a world where craft, courage, and curiosity shaped empire and landscape. Big Game Shooting (Volume 1) opens a doorway to Victorian era Britain and its African safaris era, guiding readers through a bygone frontier with modern clarity and reverence. This is more than a manual...

Biographie:
Sir Clive Phillipps-Wolley was a British-Canadian government figure, author, and large game hunter. Perhaps his two most famous compositions are The Sea Queen Wakes (1896) and Coronation Hymn, written to commemorate George V's coronation. Edward Clive Oaknall Long Phillipps was born in 1853 as the eldest son of public schoolteacher Richard Augustus Long Phillipps, who was distantly connected to Lord Robert Clive. He was educated at Rossall School. In 1877, as a legally entitled but distantly connected male inheritor, he successfully petitioned to inherit his great-grandfather's Wolley estate, which included approximately 200 acres. He added the Wolley surname to his own and omitted Edward from his legal name. At the age of 20, Phillipps was appointed as vice-consul of the British Legation in Kerch, Crimea. He scouted and hunted large wildlife in the Caucasus. He studied law, was called to the bar at Middle Temple, and practiced for less than a year. After inheriting the Wolley estate, Phillips-Wolley resigned from the British consulate service to join the fourth battalion of the South Wales Borderers, where he taught shooting and rose to the rank of captain....

Sommaire:
it is a comprehensive big game hunting guide and hunting and firearms manual rolled into one accessible volume. Readers encounter practical insight into rifle handling techniques, big game tracking methods, field dress and game care, and the hunter training references that kept field sports enthusiasts prepared. The prose blends technical know?how with storytelling, offering a richly textured sense of colonial hunting traditions and the colonial hunting narratives that informed generations. Alpha Editions restores not just a text but a cultural artifact: a work out of print for decades, reimagined for today's readers and future generations. It stands as a collector's item and a cultural treasure, worthy of both casual readers drawn to adventure and classic?literature collectors seeking historical texture and literary resonance. Its value lies in its enduring themes-skill, responsibility, and the romance of the chase-embodied in a carefully restored edition that honours the period while speaking to contemporary readers....