1902 1st edition. Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. London. Small 8vo. Ppviii,299. B/w photograph frontispiece. Red cloth. Edited & introduced by R.B. Marston. Cloth stained & used, slight browning but a solid good copy.
Notes: "...being the record of personal experiences of hunting wild game in Canada". This book was given "some little revision and [made] up into chapters" by R.B. Marston, editor of the Fishing Gazette. A sporting memoir by T.R. Pattillo, a resident of Nova Scotia. In an "unvarnished but bright, fresh, and straightforward narrative of his sport" the author describes moose calling, moose hunting on snow-shoes with dogs, goose and duck shooting, trout fishing, flyfishing for for salmon, the capture of a 600lb albacore or horse mackerel (bluefin tuna or tunny) in Nova Scotia, and sharks, dolphin-fish and "devil-fish" in the West Indies. River Medway, Bang's Falls, Rocky Falls, La Have river, Port Joli, Queen's County lakes, Derby Island, Fox Harbour and elsewhere. The last chapter describes "exciting occurences on a West Indian voyage", aboard the brig Albion from Liverpool, Nova Scotia to Trinidad, with man-eating sharks, dolphins and others. A Canadian edition by William Briggs of Toronto followed in 1903.
