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| Weight | 0.820 kg |
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£25.00
Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities
As its jaunty title promises this rollercoaster through Jorrocks extraordinary, happenstance adventures is a merry ride as he goes from his hunt, to Newmarket, to Paris with Margate thrown in between.
We are here introduced to the enigmatic ‘Yorkshireman’ perhaps RS Surtees himself, who plays a part as Jorrrocks’ confidant and pal – eliciting that most terrifying of exhortations to his professional huntsman “strain every nerve to show sport today”! The anecdote of the swell who is flummoxed by the singular challenges of the Surrey hunt – despite ‘lepping’ a canal – is deliciously done and Michael Wharton’s perceptive introduction to the Society’s volume is full of well judged, and well-put truths about Surtees.
