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Author: Lisbet Koerner and David Brian Dick Title: Corrour A History of a Sporting Estate Publication: First Edition Self Published By Lisbet Koerner and David Brian Dick 1998………………(See Pictures) Condition Of Book: This is a Fine Copy of this Book in full brown ribbed leather binding with gilt lettering to spine.Issued without dust-jacket and published privately by the Authors.The book has been Signed and Inscribed by both Authors to a Former member of the Mountain Rescue Service based in Fort William.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Lovely clean copy internally.Fascinating account of this beautiful Sporting Estate with old game bag stats including the number of Stags killed,average weight etc and also the number of Snipe,Ptarmigan,Hares,Ducks,Grouse and Black game shot.Corrour is a remote 55,000 acre Highland estate on the edge of Rannoch Moor and not too far from Fort William.The nearest public road is 17 miles from our train station.Before the nineteenth century, it was a wilderness where shepherds tendered their sheep and drovers took their cattle to market.These days it is a renowned sporting estate that combines gentle and thoughtful land management with traditional Scottish values of hospitality and with 3 wonderful cottages in which to say.Great copy for the collector.Rare Signed Title 4to 132pp [1998]
