Roger Upton O FOR A FALCONER'S VOICE First Edition

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Roger Upton O FOR A FALCONER'S VOICE First Edition

First edition, first print hardback of O FOR A FALCONER'S VOICE - Memories of the Old Hawking Club by Roger Upton and published by The Crowood Press, Wiltshire in 1987.

The book is in very good condition (Clean brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine), with minor wear to the illustrated dust jacket which is price clipped (light creasing to the edges, and very slight fading to the spine). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions. there is a previous owner's gold ownership sticker at the top corner of the front endpaper.

Roger Upton is one of the oldest and most enthusiastic participants of the sport, being very well known around the world as an accomplished falconer. He has been an enthusiastic falconer for more than fifty years. From the outset, he was fascinated by falconry in the deserts of Arabia. His opportunity came when he was asked to entertain two sheikhs form Abu Dhabi who were as intrigued by falconry in the West as he was by the great tradition and ancient heritage of falconry in Arabia.

A fine days hawking on the Wiltshire Downs, on the open high ground above Rogers home led, the following spring, to an invitation to Abu Dhabi to meet the ruler, HH the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Together they enjoyed hunting houbara bustard. Since that time Roger has travelled the Middle East in search of the hawk trappers, the merchants, the hood makers and falconers, sharing with his Arab friends the excitement of this noble sport while learning and recording the traditions of Arab falconry. He is a regular contributor to specialist magazines and other falconry books.

O For A Falconer's Voice is his second book on falconry. A fascinating insight into the history of falconry, through the journals and writings of members of the Hawking Clubs, especially of the Old Hawking Club (1863-1926), charting the successes and failures, triumphs and disasters.

"O For A Falconer's Voice provides a fascinating insight into the sport of falconry. In this elegant and beautifully illustrated book the author has set out the history of the Hawking Clubs, and in particular the Old Hawking Club (1863-1926). Fortunately, many falconers were keen diarists, correspondents and authors, and it is from these sources that Roger Upton has compiled this book.

All too often an image of unsurpassed excellent pervades the history of past clubs and falconers, but here the disasters and struggles, as well as the triumphs and the glories, are faithfully and vividly recorded.

As with A Bird in the Hand (Debrett, 1980), Roger Upton's book on celebrated falconers of the past, O For A Falconer's Voice will be of interest to all falconers, ornithologists and field sports enthusiasts as an intriguing record of falconry and its hawking clubs."

7?" - 9?" tall. 208 pages. Profusely illustrated with several colur plates and black & white photographs and line drawings within the text.

ISBN: 1 85223 015 0

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