2009 1st edition. Crowood Press. Ramsbury, Wiltshire. Pp224. B/w wood engravings by Kathleen Lindsley. Black boards. Mint in dust-wrapper.
Notes: "A frank and humerous memoir that shares with us a lifetime of adventures and tells of one man's love of the countryside. ...The hunting, be it with dogs, ferrets, boomerangs and longbows, takes place within the city limits of Edinburgh. The enemy of the city poacher is not the gamekeeper but the occasional red-faced pre-breakfast jogger gasping his way through the woods, scattering wildlife. Spanning almost forty years of hunting, [this book] begins with an enthusiastic young boy and his passion for egg-collecting and bird watching and ends with a 'respectable' old man looking back on his hunter's life. These are memoirs tinged with a little guilt but few regrets".
