Big Game Shooting (Volume 2) - Phillipps-Wolley, Clive

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Résumé :
A bold dive into a gilded age of risk, skill, and reverent pursuit. Big Game Shooting (Volume 2) opens a door to Victorian Britain's outdoor imagination and the vast frontiers beyond. This restored edition offers 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 complete historical hunting legacy woven into an outdoor adventure guide. Phillipps-Wolley's work blends practical rifles handling for big game with a lyrical, observational voice that treats the chase as sport, study, and cultural ritual. It speaks to the modern hunting enthusiast and to the reader curious about colonial hunting literature, the shaping of sporting Non-Fiction, and the glossary of places-Victorian era Britain, African safari regions, and the imagined maps of the era-where courage met craft. The text works as an illustrated hunting manual and a carefully curated part of the sporting classics bibliography. For readers drawn to both casual, page-turning narratives and collectors seeking literary artefacts, this volume is a bridge between then and now. It is not merely a reprint but a carefully restored artefact, prepared for today's audiences and for future generations. Alpha Editions offers Big Game Shooting (Volume 2) as a collector's item and a cultural treasure, keeping alive a rigorous, elegant tradition of outdoor adventure and sporting history. Keywords quietly thread through the prose: historical hunting manual, big game hunting, colonial hunting literature, rifles handling for big game, for hunting enthusiasts, illustrated hunting manual, complete big game guide, African safari regions, Victorian era Britain, outdoor adventure guide, sporting non fiction....