This book is the first to fully explore the fox as the object of both derision and fascination, from the forests of North America to the deserts of Africa to the Arctic tundra.

Parallels the lives of a bloodhound and a fox over many years of life-and-death pursuit culminating in an exhausting hunt.

Virginia in Jeffersonian days and the tragic story of drinking, dicing, and fox-hunting gentry.

Mary Hufford examines the activities that occur before, during, and after foxchases and analyzes the stories that hunters tell about chases.