PETER SCOTT: PAINTER and NATURALIST. By Elspeth Huxley. With an Introduction by Sir David Attenborough.

PETER SCOTT: PAINTER and NATURALIST. By Elspeth Huxley. With an Introduction by Sir David Attenborough.

THE NEW ABC OF SHOOTING: A FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED GUIDE. Edited by Colin Willock.

THE NEW ABC OF SHOOTING: A FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED GUIDE. Edited by Colin Willock.

BIRDS OF MARSH AND MERE: AND HOW TO SHOOT THEM. By J.M. Nichols.

(1926) 1928 2nd edition. 8vo (141 x 220mm). Pp287. Colour frontispiece, plain plates and text illustrations by the author. Introductory note by J.G. Millais.

British wildfowling for ducks, geese and waders, includes a chapter on Canada and some discussion of the Netherlands. Chapters include: Wild geese; Wild-goose shooting; Wild goose shooting (continued); Wild goose shooting (continued); Sailing to fowl, brent geese, swans; How to shoot a goose; Wildfowling guns; Powder, shot, and cartridges; British wild ducks; Wild duck shooting (inland); Wild duck shooting (on the coast); Shooting in Canada; The larger wading birds; Shore bird shooting; Woodcocks and snipe; Other water birds - coots, moorhens, water rails, phalaropes, heron, bittern, crane, stork, spoonbill; Dogs for wildfowling; Bird migration - effect of bird protection, a trip to Holland, the Schelde Estuary, the Naarder Meer; choice of wildfowling quarters - general considerations, effect of the Great War, the 'hush' port of Richborough, Pagham Harbour.
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12980
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Author Nichols (John Cradock Morgan).
Book Code 12980
ISBN B001AW3V5S.
Book Description Foxed but good-plus.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1928
Publisher Heath Cranton.
Place London.