Catchers in the Rye
E.S. Turner: Modes of Comeuppance, 3 August 2006
Rural Reflections: A Brief History of Traps, Trapmakers and Gamekeeping in Britain
by Stuart Haddon-Riddoch.
Argyll, 416 pp., £40, April 2006,1 902831 96 9 Show More
by Stuart Haddon-Riddoch.
Argyll, 416 pp., £40, April 2006,
“... generations took on the duty of regulating the more tiresome elements of the brute creation; or as Stuart Haddon-Riddoch puts it, producing ‘an ecological balance in our ever-changing countryside’; or, as the manufacturers might have put it, eliminating pests in the interests of good husbandry, public safety, sanitation, sustenance, fun and ... ”
