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The Livre de chasse is a medieval book on hunting, written between 1387 and 1389 by Gaston III, Count of Foix, also known as Fébus or Phoebus, and dedicated to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. [1] Fébus was one of the greatest huntsmen of his day and his treatise became the standard text on medieval hunting techniques. It was described by ...
Gaston III, Count of Foix, Book of the Hunt, 1387–88. Written between 1406 and 1413 by Edward, second Duke of York, The Master of Game is mostly a translation of an earlier work by Gaston Phoebus entitled Livre de chasse, [3] and is considered to be the oldest English-language book on hunting. [2]
Bushmen bowhunting for bushmeat in Botswana. Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals. [10] The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to obtain the animal's body for meat and useful animal products (fur/hide, bone/tusks, horn/antler, etc.), for recreation/taxidermy (see trophy hunting), although it may also be done for ...
The work is divided into six books: [2] Book I: The general habits and structure of birds; Book II: Birds of prey, their capture and training; Book III: The different kinds of lures and their use; Book IV: Hunting cranes with the gyrfalcon; Book V: Hunting herons with the saker falcon; Book VI: Hunting water-birds with smaller falcons
South Africa is a famous destination for game hunting, with its large biodiversity and therefore impressive variety of game species. Many creatures have returned to former areas from which they were once taken as a result of being killed for big-game hunting. Commonly hunted species include:
He died on April 24, 1967, in Budapest. His specialist library miraculously survived World War II, counting more than 4,000 volumes at the time of his death. Zsigmond Széchenyi's hunting library is the most significant collection of hunting books in Hungary, which was purchased by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1969 for the Natural History Museum.
On Guns and Hunting is a collection of non-fiction outdoor literature and one short story by Donald Hamilton. Contents. Inside on the Rail, 7 (Outdoor Life, Jan 1955)
As part of the UK government's Acceptance in Lieu scheme, the book was acquired by the British Library in 2007 in place of inheritance tax. A few surviving leaves of the Kerdeston Hunting Book were accepted simultaneously. These were both placed into the library's extensive collection of Middle English manuscripts. [1]