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This is a wonderful and revealing autobiography of an English country childhood, the decision to enter hunt service, and the author’s experiences as he worked his way through an intensely hierarchical apprenticeship system that has changes little over the centuries. In England, in the 1960s, in the lowly position of second whipper-in at age 16, Robards learned about the hunt from celebrated huntsmen of the modern era. He ultimately achieved the ambition of all who enter hunt service-he became huntsman of a world-class pack of foxhounds in County Limerick, Ireland. “Foxhunting in England, Ireland, and North America” is packed with well-known hunting personalities, vivid hunting memories, and genuine hunting savv… More >>
Foxhunting in England, Ireland, and North America: A Life in Hunt Service
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Foxhunting in England, Ireland, and North America: A Life in Hunt Service
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Adventures in Latin America: The Life of One Foreign Service Wife
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When Betty Hahn married Maurie Bernbaum in the winter of 1942, she knew that he was an American Foreign Service Vice Consul. However, she could never have known of the exotic places that she?d end up, of the fascinating people she would meet, or of the wonderful children she would bear. There was no warning about making apple pie for President Eisenhower or nearly losing Adlai Stevenson?s pants. The prospect of creating a wide portfolio of vivid, lustrous paintings, of bearing a daughter at 10,000 feet?all but dreams of the often dramatic future that she would one day experience. Betty Bernbaum relates the story of her captivating life in South America with the charming ease of a dear relative. Her relaxed, … More >>
Adventures in Latin America: The Life of One Foreign Service Wife