Sport and sportsmen : a book of recollections / By Charles Stretton
- Bib ID:
- 2273466
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Stretton, Charles, 1811-1878, author
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- Description:
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- London : Hurst and Blackett, 1866
- 319, [16] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Summary:
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A collection of collection of sporting memoirs, mainly set in England, Wales and the Scottish Highlands, although the last chapter, "Two Days with a Native Chief" (255-319), is a reminiscence of a kangaroo hunting expedition outside Melbourne with "King Tom" of the Yarra Yarra tribe in 1852. It is in fact quite a remarkable memoir for its period, showing considerable understanding not only of the skills of the Aboriginal people, but also some knowledge of and sympathy for the hardships endured by them throughout the period of white settlement. It is also a ripping yarn of exotic hunting. —Based on Hordern House catalogue entry, July 2018.
- Full contents:
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- My first trip to the Highlands
- The Welsh parson
- A contrast
- A day's otter hunting
- A good run with barriers
- A poaching adventure
- Two days with a native chief.
- Biography/History:
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Charles Stretton was the youngest son of a wealthy Welsh family, then in middle age, when he voyaged to Australia in search of a fortune in 1852. He returned to England in 1858. —Based on an entry for Stretton's Memoirs of a Chequered Life (1862; volumes 2 and 3 deal with his time in Australia) in Kay Walsh and Joy W. Hooton, Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900, volume 2, 1850-1900, pages 261-262.
- Notes:
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- Illustration on title page.
- National Library of Australia's SR copy is bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt decoration and a bookseller’s or binder’s ticket on upper pastedown for "Augs. Webster and Stockley, Stationers, 60 Piccadilly, W". The book is inscribed in pencil to "Herbert, from W. R. Stretton, brother of author."
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- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1878
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1866
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