REFLECTIONS OF A COUNTRYMAN. By Fred J. Taylor.

(1982) 1999 2nd edn reprint. 8vo (140mm 222mm). Pp192. B/w illustrations. New foreword by John Humphreys.

Hard to find in the original edition. A new chance to obtain this collection of Fred J. Taylor's tales of rabbiting and fishing. Fred J. was always one of my favourite writers, partly because of our shared outlook on sport and partly because of his unfashionable emphasis on cooking and eating the quarry. Chapters include: Country kids; Knocker and Will; Nature's apprentice; A soldier sportsman; 'Angling in earnest'; Where fishing is for fun; Good sport, good friends; The American outdoors; Australian interlude; The changing scene; Afterword.