Merlin Unwin Books imprint: 63 books
by John Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
John Cowan is an experienced gamekeeper working in Scotland and here he shares a life-time's expertise in using and training working dogs.
He covers each category of gamekeeper's dog: Retriever, Terrier, Hunter Pointer Retriever, Pointers and Setters, Guard Dogs, Spaniels, Lurchers and Cross-breeds...
Vagabond
A Horseback Adventure from Bulgaria to Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The journey starts when author and long-rider Jeremy James buys two horses from gypsies at a fair in southern Bulgaria. He and his long-suffering friend Chumpie then set off on horseback, winding northwards to Berlin, and on the way they encounter a marvellous array of local characters from all walks...
Gone Native
Called by the Curlew and the Beat of Drums
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Donald MacIntosh had never left his native Scotland until, at the age of 23, he embarked on a career as a tree surveyor and forest botanist which took him to some of the most remote parts of the rainforests of West Central Africa. From Nigeria and Liberia to Cameroon and Gabon he worked, from Newfoundland...
Canal Fishing
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
With hundreds of miles of underfished water, canals represent a vast, untapped fishing resource. From shallow, secluded rural waters to giant urban ship channels, they offer a staggering diversity of angling potential which is open and affordable to all. Britain’s canals have never been in better...
Innocent Victims
Rescuing the Stranded Animals of Zimbabwe's Farm Invasions
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
In December 2002, Meryl Harrison moved a large audience to tears at the BBC Animal Awards Ceremony, having been flown over from her native Zimbabwe to receive their Special Award. There she told her tale of the rescue of countless animals caught up in five years of the Zimbabwean land invasions, as...
by Maynard Davies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Fans of Maynard will be delighted to read his further adventures in bacon curing. The last of the traditionally-apprenticed bacon curers, the author regales and inspires his readers with tales of visits from the health inspectors his colourful customers and work colleagues his tips on curing, smoking...
How the Other Half Lived
Ludlow's Working Classes 1850-1960
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Ludlow, Shropshire, is perhaps best known today for its gourmet restaurants, its famous Food Festival and its attractive Georgian and medieval market town centre. But it has a less glorious claim to fame: the working classes of Ludlow lagged far behind much of the country when it came to their living...
Beneath Safer Skies
A Child Evacuee in Shropshire
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Fleeing the heavy bombing in Kent in 1940, Anthea Toft was eight years old when she arrived with her mother to live on a remote farm in deepest Shropshire. The contrast between her sheltered middle class life in the Home Counties, and that of the hard-working rural existence of the farming folk with...
A Countryman's Creel
The Remarkable, the Heart-rending, the Intriguing, the Almost Unbelievable Short Stories of Conor Farrington
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
A guest at a Scottish country estate is not all he seems; a solicitor with an addiction to point-to-point racing encounters a run of disastrous luck – but why is his close friend so pleased? A flyfisherman meets the disoriented Lady Anstey in a downpour and is drawn into a threatened world; and...
by Maynard Davies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Maynard Davies, the last of the apprentice bacon curers, tells his intriguing story in his own distinctive style. Always one to turn a challenge into an opportunity, Maynard took pleasure in learning the skills of the old master curers of the Black Country and he shares with the reader the secrets...
GT
A Flyfisher's Guide to Giant Trevally
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Catching a giant trevally (or ‘GT’) on a fly rod is the pinnacle of flats fishing: highly challenging, requiring skill, preparation and courage. This is the first comprehensive guide to giant trevally fishing on the fly.
The giant trevally is an apex predator, and the way it operates is...
How to Flyfish
From Newcomer to Improver
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
In this clear and attractive book are all the essential skills you need to be a competent all-round flyfisher. With John Symonds you will learn how to fish for trout and salmon in stillwaters from both bank and boat; in rivers; dry fly and wet fly. You will know how to tie reliable and easy knots,...
Moonlighting
Tales and misadventures of a working life with eels
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
In spring 1973, Michael Brown, a young freelance travel writer, took a phone call from a friend: 'Why don't you come down to Somerset and see these things called elvers - they migrate up river at night on the high tides and the local's fish for them. It's called elvering.' And so began a lifetime's...
by Malcolm Greenhalgh
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
From the world’s largest tripe factory to the Battle of Wigan Lane; from the Peterloo massacre to the first British canal - Lancashire can claim it all. It was one of the poorest parts of Britain due to its difficult terrain, poor soil, estuaries and bogs, but it went on to become one of the wealthiest...