This charming journal documents the hunting adventures of the Blackmoor Vale Hounds, a pack of foxhounds based in Dorset, England, in the early 19th century. Written by Johannis Channing, a skilled huntsman and diarist, it offers a lively and engaging account of the joys and challenges of the sport, as well as a detailed portrait of the rural English society of the time. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important,...