The informative, lively text describes life in the lodge both then and now with glorious first-hand accounts as well as incidental snippets explaining general shooting lodge fare and dining rituals of times past. Gun-rooms and rod-rooms, game books, fishing registers and hunting diaries are all covered.
An extensive and fascinating history of the sporting lodge that also identifies and details buildings that are still in use todayDetails how sportsmen and their families traveled and includes a reenactment of an Edwardian railway journey from London to the Outer HebridesExamples of itemized billing, food orders, contents of the rodroom/tack-room and gun-room are includedA comprehensive display of modern-day luncheon lodges in current use on private shooting estatesTales and anecdotes from the past and present
