Six Einstein Cards (Small-Format Card Books)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Genius!
  • If you Like Einstein you'll want these cards.
Six Einstein Cards (Small-Format Card Books)
Albert Einstein
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486277127

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6 candid views of the great man — teaching, lecturing, relaxing on the beach, 3 more. Inexpensive, ready-to-mail postcards will delight students, scientists, admirers of one of the greatest of all physicists. Black-and-white.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Genius!.......2005-09-10

These Six Einstein Postcards(4 3/16 x 5 3/4) are an excellent way to say hi to teachers, students, friends, or anyone who might appreciate a picture of Al. Glossy black and white photos of the genius come packaged in a little booklet, that are detachable by perforations. Or if you decide to keep them for yourself, they will always stay together.

All are beautifully reproduced, clear shots of public and personal moments, of Albert Einstein mostly from the 20's and 30's. The pix included are:
1)At the blackboard(no year shown), appears to be working on some formula
2)Playing the violin(1929),
3)A shot of the genius sitting outdoors(1931), but looking very pensive(makes you wonder..what was he thinking?!)
4)At the beach in shorts and sandals, sitting on a small boat with David Rothman(1939)
5)With wife Elsa(in background) in Pasadena(1939), still looking pensive.
6)Taking a walk in Berlin(1922)

This is one of the best items, I've found to add to my cart, when I need just that little bit more to put me in that free shipping catagory. Will be great as stocking stuffers, or for your college student. Relatively speaking, it's a pretty big deal for a small price.

Go for it....Laurie

4 out of 5 stars If you Like Einstein you'll want these cards........1998-07-19

There is not much to say they're postcards. But I found them great to say hi to my old physics

professor. I found a link to these postcards on

explorespace.com You really can't beat 80 cents for 6 great postcards.

Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • remote contact
  • Wonderfully descriptive
  • Read Anna Karenina by Tolstoy instead.
  • It's all about the industrial takeover
  • The Antidote to Platonic Love
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
D. H. Lawrence
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 014303961X

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Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters.

Book Description

One of the most extraordinary literary works of the twentieth century, Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned in England and the United States after its initial publication in 1928. The unexpurgated edition did not appear in America until 1959, after one of the most spectacular legal battles in publishing history.

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars remote contact.......2007-08-28

It's been a while since I've read anything this flowery, and yet, it was a pleasant deviation. This book wasn't shocking for its sexual contact, but it was a pleasant surprise. I wasn't expecting such a robust sprinkling of f*ck and c*nt, but there it was, interspersed with social class distinction and haughtiness turned into naughtiness. It has the allure and staying power of liberal sex scenes, but also is the lovely picture of a love affair that transcends social mores.

4 out of 5 stars Wonderfully descriptive.......2007-05-14

A wonderful read, that explores human relationships. It is wonderfully descriptive and a pleasure to read. Highly recommend.

2 out of 5 stars Read Anna Karenina by Tolstoy instead........2007-03-22

I love the classics- I make sure to throw a few into my "to be read" pile just to cleanse the palette from my general fiction and genre reading. I've been wanting to read LCL for some time now, mostly because of it being censored and banned back in the day for it's explicit sex and language. In fact it was considered pornographic and, for a time, was not allowed to be mailed out into the US due to obscenity laws.

Because I do read romance and yes, even erotica, at times I have to defend my reading choices because it's considered illicit, so naturally I wanted to read LCL.

Ugh. I hated it.

Slow paced and tedious I wanted to give up on it so many times. But I'm stubborn so I couldn't let myself give up on it.

Whereas I'm sure this book was a shocker in the late 20's when it was published, to my modern eyes, it was no biggie. Yes it was graphic, but in no way could one consider this pornographic! Porn, to me, is something that is produced (visual or written) to enflame sexually. This book was far from stimulating in that way.

The first section bored me to tears, full of mind-numbing conversations that had no significance other than for the author to show how intellectual he was. I could barely read a page without my eyes drooping closed. Yes, I got that their conversations had a point- "The dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation." Yeah, I got it. But to stretch it out for the length of the entire book? Ugh.

When Lady Chatterley met Mellors, her soon to be lover- things got more interesting- for about 10 pages. Then back to the tedium. It back and forthed like that for the entire book. UGH!

I truly liked her lover Mellors. A vetern of the war and of the lower class, he seemed the most intelligent of the characters. Which was, of course, the most shocking part of the story back in the day- the fact that a member of the upper class, Lady Chatterley, cheated on her upper crust husband with a servant.

Connie (Lady Chatterley) I found wishy-washy, whiney, and downright annoying. NOT a heroine to love. BUT she knew how to find her sexual pleasure and wasn't ashamed of it. (Plus for her!) Clifford, her husband- Lord Chatterley to her Lady- I actually felt pity for, though the author did his best to make him seem unworthy of Connie.

Here's a short look at Lord and Lady Chatterley:

Cliffy, wounded and crippled during the war, was unable to perform his husbandly duties. Connie grew to loathe him and headed out for greener pastures. Now, I'll give that Cliffy was a snob and a control freak, but pitiful to be sure, and in the end didn't deserve Connie's selfishness.

(...)
... however, I am glad I read LCL. If only to say I have done so!

5 out of 5 stars It's all about the industrial takeover.......2007-01-10

Although this book has a saucy reputation, it's not all about sex. It is a rather dreary look at early 20th century England. Worthy of your time, and the brassy language could still make a school girl blush.

5 out of 5 stars The Antidote to Platonic Love.......2006-11-07

Constance Chatterley's gamekeeper, Mellors, brings out the animal in Her Ladyship, and he extends the protection to her that he does to all the wild game in the wood. It is Mellors himself who, in the end, understands that his own baronet, Sir Clifford, is the greatest threat to his most vulnerable charge. Constance's own father, Sir Malcolm, fails utterly to appreciate the situation when he refers to Mellors as the quintessential poacher himself. Sir Malcolm's mistake is that he, along with all of polite society, fails to recognize that humans are, in fact, animals, and that the thrill of conjugal intimacy unites us with all other fauna. We strayed from this notion long ago, with Plato extolling virtuous love, and referring to passions and desires as evil (Book IX of the Phaedrus).

Sir Clifford, who is impotent as a result of war injuries, suggests to his wife that she have a discrete affair in order to produce an heir to the estate. "I don't care who his father may be as long as he is a healthy man not below normal intelligence." His admonition that Connie be careful not to fall in love in the process foreshadows his tragedy. When we see the gamekeeper, Mellors, placing pheasant eggs into the nests of chickens, in order that they may be reared by surrogate hens, we know, before any of the protagonists themselves, just who Lady Chatterley's surrogate husband will be. Ultimately Connie discovers that Mellors has that rarest of qualities in a man; he enjoys making love only when his partner enjoys it, too. These feelings are a sharp contrast with her experience as well as his, and they are both immediately ensnared in a tense carnal conspiracy.

In the process, we are treated to D. H. Lawrence's craft:

"Both sisters mixed with...the young Cambridge group, the group that stood for 'freedom' and flannel trousers, and soft shirts open at the neck, and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy..., and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner."

Tevershall village had "rows of wretched, small begrimed brick houses with black slate roofs for lids, sharp angles, and willful blank dreariness."

One attraction of her first lover, Michalis, is that he had his own ideas and stated them clearly; "he didn't merely walk round them with millions of words, in the parade of the life of the mind."

Sir Clifford "seemed alert in the foreground, but the background was like the Midlands atmosphere, haze, smoky mist."

Before her affair with Mellors, Connie saw sex as "just a cocktail term for an excitement that bucked you up for a while, then left you more raggy than ever."

Connie realizes of Clifford that, "like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of: the great desert tracts in his consciousness."

"She saw her own nakedness in his eyes..."

This book will not titillate the reader of 2006 as it did the reader of 1928. The reaction against it then exposed both widespread hypocrisy and a scientifically illiterate, pre-Kinsey society which extolled Platonic values, and in the process denied the incomparable delight of primitive intimacy.

The World War (Gamekeeper Series, Book 2)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • A True Giant Among Alternate History Authors
  • Superb reading
  • Interesting sub-plot
  • lethally boring
  • Engaging Alternative History
The World War (Gamekeeper Series, Book 2)
Dave Putnam
Manufacturer: Bulldog Press
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ASIN: 0967271061

Book Description

The World War is the second novel in Dave Putnam's riveting Gamekeeper Trilogy. We find Britain entering the twentieth century by attacking, Germany, Russia, and every other despotic regime, sparking a global conflagration, and, perhaps, biting off more than it can chew.

As the world goes up in flames, the pace of technological advance quickens. World War I technology morphs into World War II technology, but with a twist: Animals armed with unique weapons fight alongside panzers and submarines.

From the ashes of the World War, this alternate history timeline continues to diverge from our reality. Fascism does not emerge in Europe, communism becomes a more potent force than anyone can imagine, and humanity enters a strange, new world.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A True Giant Among Alternate History Authors.......2005-09-20

To show how much I loved The World War by Dave Putnam, I was not bored as I usually am with long descriptions of military tactics and weaponry. I also hate spiders with a passion, yes I have a phobia and the spider on the cover of the book cover was turned face down when I wasn't reading it. Having said that, it is a great work of alternate history and continues the Gamekeeper Trilogy. Favorite characters like Fred Greystone, David Banner, and others return plus some interesting new ones. The greatest treat for me was the continuing saga of a man I consider the most outstanding leader in the 20th century, Winston Churchill. There are also nice segments on the aging Queen Victoria and many others. The World War begun in the first book is covered in detail, a combination of our two World Wars. There is a creation of a real life and death war game that is supposed to help the human race become less blood thirsty over all and to develop new technology well ahead of its time. Animals again play a major part in this second book. The book, like the first one, is not afraid to make religion and belief in God the focal point. The book plants the seeds for the third book in the series that sees the world faced with the greatest Godless threat of all time, communism. There is also a bow to how leftist Hollywood film companies try to influence elections. I only read other reviews after I have written mine so that I will not be influenced. I was concerned with some snobbery from a reviewer on the first book about the publisher "Bulldog Press". I will honestly say that threw me a bit myself until I remembered that thanks to the net and other factors, small publishers can now slug it out with the big ones. No longer does an author have to be concerned whether he or she will be loved by the New York Times. Thanks to Amazon, our own reviews carry at least as much weight (I'd like to think more) than reviews in the so called big press, "the old media". And David Putnam carries a lot of weight gaining equality with Eric Flint and again surpassing Harry Turtledove. As I said in my review of the first book, I wish that this series had been available when I was teaching full time, but after 40 years I am retired. I did use alternate history and government books in my classes and have even had some published myself.

5 out of 5 stars Superb reading.......2005-01-07

This is a great sequel to the excellent "Game Keeper's Night Dog", and the second in a "must read" trilogy for science fiction and alternate history enthusiasts. The author makes vivid and imaginative use of historical/industrial characters such as Winston Churchill, Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, the German hero-General Hindenburg, Rudolph Diesel, and Henry Ford - not to mention the emergence of the Zulu race as the world's preeminent aviators. Especially creative - building on the key role of the English Bulldog species of canines in "Gamekeepers" - is the evolution of intelligent birds, mammals, and anachronids and their mobillization as very new and different weapons of war. This volume concludes with an intriguing "new technology" battle, staged in the Hawaiian islands.

5 out of 5 stars Interesting sub-plot.......2004-12-26

One of the interesting sub-plots (in The World War) was the development of mechanized combined armies by Germany. In the prequel (Gamekeeper's Night Dog) Germany is given the designs for a T35, the most effective main battle tank in the real WW II. Unlike the real world Germany, the fictional Germany does not develop mobile war tactics on the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War. It conducts massive war games on a remote North Sea island, operating on a scale equal to the Spanish Civil War, but in secrecy. Therefore the fictional Germany springs a devastating blitzkrieg on the Western Allies that is more effective than [...] blitzkrieg. Why is the fictional Germany smarter than the real one? Answer: General Alfred Graf von Schlieffen. The real Schlieffen was an unparalled military genius. He designed Germany's plan for defeating France in WW I. But he died before the war and his plan was weakened and modified. There is a school of thought that the original Schieffen plan would have delivered victory to Germany. In the World War, the fictional Schlieffen's plan is allowed to come to fruition.

1 out of 5 stars lethally boring.......2004-12-16

This book was the worst. Implausible. Unexplained technological advances. Boring from the outset and drives you away like a cold rain drives you inside a warm house.

5 out of 5 stars Engaging Alternative History.......2004-12-13

I really enjoyed this work! This novel is an amazing alternate history read. It's much shorter, refined and readable than the author's first novel, The Gamekeeper's Night Dog, albeit the first was quite fascinating. The author's imaginative use of animals outfitted with state-of-the art military equipment and working as an intelligent force is intriguing. More thought-provoking is the analogy of Britain as the world power and its striking similarities with modern day America, including a domineering and war mongering government. I hope the author continues the series and forays into the realm of science fiction.
Keeper Turned Poacher
Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
  • Starts of as a Sensational Novel then Becomes Very Average Once Joan Meets Ken
Keeper Turned Poacher
Gerald Hammond
Manufacturer: Severn House Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0727864408

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A woman on the run faces a baffling mystery posed by her new lover - Anxious the police will blame her for a violent crime she became entangled in, Joan formulates a plan. Being raised by a skilled poacher taught her plenty of tricks; a key to her lover's unused country cottage is all she needs to lie low. The arrival of handsome gamekeeper Ken on the scene is a welcome surprise, but there's speculation in the village about the disappearance of his wife. Could she really have been killed? And if so, by whom?

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Starts of as a Sensational Novel then Becomes Very Average Once Joan Meets Ken.......2007-03-20

This novel starts of great, Joan is tied up, tied to a chair, the victim of a con artist violent jewellery store robbery thrown on the street by a loser she is the mistress of. She steals transportation and gets herself to a remote cottage her loser ex boyfriend owns but she knows will never visit. There she lives off the land, cares for a strange dog and resumes a former life of breaking and entering near by houses not to get money for herself but so that she can buy the dog things it needs. Then along comes good looking gamekeeper Ken and the book goes downhill, he's is pretty incompetent at his job and she saves him from getting fired by showing him the correct way to do everything. Like when all stories go bad a pointless love story is introduced. Only thing is Ken is suspected of killing his wife who went missing a while ago.

Hammond has written some sensational novels such as On the Warpath, Snatch, The Dirty Dollar and many others. Get one of them instead.
THE GAMEKEEPER'S DIRECTORY - CONTAINING INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF GAME, DESTRUCTION OF VERMIN AND THE PREVENTION OF POACHING. (HISTORY OF SHOOTING SERIES) (History of Shooting Series)
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    THE GAMEKEEPER'S DIRECTORY - CONTAINING INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF GAME, DESTRUCTION OF VERMIN AND THE PREVENTION OF POACHING. (HISTORY OF SHOOTING SERIES) (History of Shooting Series)
    T.B. JOHNSON
    Manufacturer: Read Country Books
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    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 1905124287

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    THE GAMEKEEPER'S DIRECTORY CONTAINING INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF GAME, DESTRUCTION OF VERMIN, AND THE PREVENTION OF POACHING. By T.B. Johnson. This important historical record of the ways of an early gamekeeper is extremely difficult to find in its original printing. First penned in 1820, it was revised, and then published by the author's son in 1851 as a second edition. Very few of either edition remain today. READ COUNTRY BOOKS has now republished it using the original revised text. Its 200 pages detail the life and work of a keeper in the first half of the 19th century. Some 150 years on, the reader will find much of the contents and advice still remains relevant to gamekeepers and shooting men. The author offers his book as a "Practical book of instruction for the class to which it is particularly addressed, as well as to Sportsmen in general." Thirty-five concise chapters detail methods of preserving game, whilst advice is also given on controlling some thirty species of birds and mammals then considered vermin. Other chapters discuss. - Trapping. - Poisons. - Hereditary Instinct. - Observations on Poaching. - The Game Laws. - Steel Man Traps. - Dog Spears. - General Observation. - etc. This new edition is printed in a quality soft cover format.
    The Gamekeeper's Night Dog (Gamekeeper Series, Book 1) (Gamekeeper)
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • great imagination
    • Dogs & Mad Englishmen............................................
    • I can't wait to read the next two books in the series.
    • Not for the faint of heart
    • Its a Dog Allright
    The Gamekeeper's Night Dog (Gamekeeper Series, Book 1) (Gamekeeper)
    Dave Putnam
    Manufacturer: Bulldog Press (CA)
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    ASIN: 0967271045

    Book Description

    The year is 1891 and the British Empire is balanced on a precipice. If the last English Bulldog dies, the empire will begin to crumble and the Boer War will be fought as a Vietnam type quagmire. But if imperial soldiers ride across the African plain with huge packs of fierce Bulldogs at their side, then British martial prowess will be magnified. Armed with this knowledge, David Banner unleashes a lethal combination of war dogs, machineguns, and chemical artillery shells into the killing fields of South Africa. Under this onslaught, history takes a dramatic and violent turn. Through force of arms, he will either extend the Pax Britannica for a thousand years or the world will sink into centuries of meaningless war and destruction.

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars great imagination.......2005-12-29

    Many of the reviewers made a point which I will endorse. The author is not a polished author of many years experience so his product is rough. The imaginative bits however are great. Who could imagine using trained dogs to attack infantry and artillery regiments in WWI? He is weak in some areas and strong in others. At least it requires more imagination and creativity than a bard, halfling, thief etc off to save the world or princess by acquiring a magical object. Well done! A good first effort.

    1 out of 5 stars Dogs & Mad Englishmen...................................................2005-08-25

    In fairness, the book has a truly wonderful premise, and as an avowed fan of 'alternative history' i was drawn to it immediately. The basic idea behind the trilogy of which this is the initial offering, is that some of the advancements in military technology which were instituted in the early 20th Century, are instead discovered and implemented - primarily by Great Britain - during the latter half of the 1800's, which leads to a wholly unique 'new world order'. Coupled with this, the 'British Bulldog' is bred for absolute fierceness, courage and tenacity, and used in fighting packs alongside the line soldiers. It all sounds quite brilliant.
    To be fair, Mr. Putnam does a bang-up job from page one of 'getting inside the heads' of the dogs in question and so makes canine motivations and thought processes seem quite natural and understandable to the reader.
    Unfortunately, the knack doesn't follow through to his human characters who are at best two-dimensional and at worst totally unbelievable and lacking credence.
    For example, the main protagonist is initially portrayed - quite adequately - as a gamekeeper in Victorian England. However, same person somehow is inexplicably able to cope with and engage in mystic psychic communications with a black-hole- cum-diety, recieve and comprehend the fantastical visions of future wars bestowed upon him without so much as a hiccough about his sanity; acquire tactical understandings of a vietnam conflict and the use of F4 Phantom jets (remember that even Zeppelin's are a huge leap into the future at the time point in question); to then become in turn, a master geopolitical strategist and military thinker, ersatz diplomat and global adventurer, even accept the roles of munitions developer and fledgeling airframe designer.............frankly, it's beyond any stretch to set all of these attributes onto the one set of shoulders, - never mind the nagging problem of 'class vs. advancement' in as stratified a society as the author describes. If this were the only such 'hero extension' i could try and overcome it, but the same type of treatment is given to many other characters - all without elucidation or justification- in the book, and it just gets old.
    Also, i'm traditional enough to believe a novel should have a beginning, a middle and an end. Well, this book does to. It has a handful of each strewn in random order between the covers.
    Perhaps it's a question of expectations,- i really wanted to enjoy 'The Gamekeeper's Night Dog' - and despite every effort totally failed. However -maybe others can, - after all, the Publisher has had sufficient success to print the two companion volumes, so obviously my impressions cannot be definitive. I can think of no other explanation for the trilogy's success than there must be many people who enjoy "dogs". Therefore i reccomend it if you do too.

    5 out of 5 stars I can't wait to read the next two books in the series........2005-08-20

    This was a sleeper as I only picked up the book because of my love of history, love of England, and love of alternate history in fiction. I was also ignorant of the influence of war dogs in English history and equally so of the Boer Wars. This meant having to check facts on the net to be sure Dave Putnam wasn't putting me on. He was a bit, but it is still one of the best alternate histories I have read to date and I have been reading them for 55 years and using them in my classrooms as a teacher. I particularly like the spiritual aspects, the references to the Christian religion in a positive way, something too many authors of science fiction seem to avoid. The novel is informative and interesting and the characters, both real and fictional, are well done. Great characterizations of Victoria, Cecil Rhodes, Winston Churchill as a very young man, Sir Arthur Canon Doyle, and many others. If the next two are as good I will never be content with Harry Turtledove again, not that he hasn't already slipped in my estimation. Thank you Mr. Putnam for your vision and your ability to share it with your readers.

    5 out of 5 stars Not for the faint of heart.......2005-04-20

    After reading this book two words jump to mind: realistic and barbaric. I'm afraid that some of the negative reviewers aren't ready to be immersed into the warlike Britain of the Victorian era. Bull baits are described in graphic detail and extolled, offending modern animal rights advocates. Ruthless real politik foriegn policy is jammed down the world's collective throat, upsetting the tender sensibilities of today's multilateralist liberals. I really enjoyed the Gamekeeper because I let it take me back to another place and time. You'll like it too, if you're not squeamish and ready to take the journey.

    1 out of 5 stars Its a Dog Allright.......2005-04-19

    One thing came to mind while reading this book. There are some people that high school english teachers shouldn't encourage.
    That said I was intigued enough by the premiss to buy this book and I have to say the best written part was the synopsis at Amazon. Bad. Not putrid bad. But NOT very well written. I returned it and the other two in the trilogy.
    The Banville Diaries: Journals of a Norfolk Gamekeeper 1822-44
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      The Banville Diaries: Journals of a Norfolk Gamekeeper 1822-44
      Norma Virgoe
      Manufacturer: Harpercollins
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      Binding: Hardcover

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      Country Talesold Gamekeeper (Country Tales)
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        Country Talesold Gamekeeper (Country Tales)
        Brian P. Martin
        Manufacturer: David & Charles
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        Binding: Paperback

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        ASIN: 0715308351
        A Funny Old Quist: Memoirs of a Gamekeeper (Ordinary Lives, 5.)
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          A Funny Old Quist: Memoirs of a Gamekeeper (Ordinary Lives, 5.)
          Evan Rogers , and Clive Murphy
          Manufacturer: Eland
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Paperback

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          ASIN: 0907871615
          Gamekeeping
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            Gamekeeping
            David Hudson
            Manufacturer: Swan Hill Press
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Hardcover

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            ASIN: 190405773X

            Book Description

            Practical and informative guide to raising gamebirds and running a shoot

            Valuable insight into the keeper's work for everyone who shoots or is otherwise involved in country sports

            Gamekeeping is a comprehensive book covering all aspects of the keeper's work from habitat management and predator control to game rearing and shoot management. The history of the profession as well as its likely future are examined, and the author offers his own outspoken and often controversial views on fieldsports in the twenty-first century. Useful and thought-provoking reading for all aficionados of game shooting.
            Gamekeeper, The (Country Library)
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              Gamekeeper, The (Country Library)
              Ian Niall
              Manufacturer: Boydell P
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Paperback
              ASIN: 0851152465
              Release Date: 1985-10-10

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