GAME BOOK: SPORTING ROUND THE WORLD. By Macdonald Hastings.

1979 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 222mm). Pp173. B/w photographs. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt.

"[The author] reminisces about adventures in war and peace, about shooting and fishing in Africa, India, Norway, the U.S. and Canada, of shooting partridges in the middle of a battle in France, and of working with television cameras in the English countryside, and discusses the techniques of shooting with bow and arrow and with a muzzle-loader." Chapters include:- The mind of a child; The making of a countryman; The poaching years; Sporting in wartime; Our comic opera shoot; The good old days; Great shots; The tycoons of sport; Game on the hook; Shooting about the world; The coutryside on television; Adventures in sea fishing; No tall stories; The hazards of fishing; Fishing in Ireland; Surprises in Arctic Norway; Dogs in my life; Odd birds; Believe it or not; Hunting alone; Shooting with a muzzleloader; Bows and arrows; My lifelong love affair with the Highlands; Souvenirs.