The Tack Room angling essays

The Tack Room angling essaysPolo, horse racing, show jumping, endurance riding, ploughing, carriage driving, mining with pit ponies, policing on horseback: all these activities need different tack. Paula Sells shows how the tack used in 27 different disciplines has become specialised for each one. She describes the tack rooms and their contents, conversations with the owners, meetings with Master Saddlers and the history and current challenges of each discipline. Each tack room

Is it a former client with a grudge

but it was a large stone and Man has long been shooting small stones and carefully rounded bullets of clay

A true story "more real than any historical novel - more moving

without a doubt

Richie Woodhall

this book will leave you with the perfect casting skills for all situations

in-comers and old-school locals

About the book (also available in hardback trade edition):

Corbett derived intense happiness from observing wildlife and he was a fervent conservationist as well as a tracker and ace shot

it’s a supremely entertaining and 'dippable' read

and though hunting foxes is taboo

that magnificent range of hills and moors which make up the backbone of England