The South Devon Hunt A History Of The Hunt From Its Foundation Covering A Period Of Over A Hundred Years With Incidental Reference To Neighbouring Packs

Author : Edward J. F. Tozer
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ISBN 13 : 9781332282456
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book The South Devon Hunt written by Edward J. F. Tozer and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The South Devon Hunt: A History of the Hunt From Its Foundation, Covering a Period of Over a Hundred Years, With Incidental Reference to Neighbouring Packs A Hunt that can claim to have been "established for over a century" and can boast of a succession of masters unbroken during that period, save for one short season ninety years ago, is certainly entitled to its history. The mere desire, however, to see justice done to a venerable institution was not alone responsible for the production of this work. So long as hunting exists the past history of a hunt will always be of some interest, and, at times, of some value, to hunting men, especially to members of the particular hunt concerned. This interest increases as the vista of bygone years lengthens, and men begin to live more in the past than in the future. Memory, however, is fickle and leads to surprising mistakes; and tradition has no chance of life in these days; so that, in the case of the South Devon Hunt, where changes of scene and players have been many and confusing, there appeared a likelihood of the true facts and sequence of events becoming obscured, if not lost altogether. But to have either interest or value, a history must be true. My chief aim, therefore, has been accuracy; I have endeavoured, as far as possible, not to make a statement of fact without first verifying it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.