STORY DESCRIPTION This is the second book in the series (a series of eleven books in all) about life in a twenty-first century Arab country where the old laws of concubinage and slavery still apply.
David Ransome has lived in England since he was four years old, and is a post-graduate student at Oxford University when his grandfather dies, and by an odd sequence of events he inherits the throne of the Emirate of Kobekistan. The Emir is the absolute ruler, and in "Hunting Delights" we follow the history of hunting, imported from England by the old Emir, David's grandfather, and continued by him.
The horses are superb, and the costumes are indistinguishable from those of an English fox hunt, with the red coats and black hats.
Unfortunately there are no foxes in Kobekistan, but there are plenty of female slaves. Foxes run for their lives, but the slaves are running for their freedom if they can elude the hunt for long enough. Of course, bigger dogs are needed for such a quarry, so Irish Wolfhounds are the order of the day. The "kill" is more interesting if the dogs don`t take part, but each huntsman indulges his whims with the quarry ?
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