"IT'LL BE ALRIGHT ON THE FLIGHT!": HUMOROUS STORIES FROM THREE DECADES OF WILDFOWLING. By Vince Raw.
2000 1st edition. 8vo paperback (155 x 234mm). Pp192. B/w cartoon illustrations by the author. Numbered copy from an edition limited to 1,000 copies.
"The urge to go wildfowling all started when I was in bed with the flu, reading the articles in the shooting magazines. ...I blame it all on the articles I read, exciting and convincing me that there is so much pleasure [to be had] lying in the mud in the middle of the night, on some wild foreshore in Arctic conditions. ...If I had any sense at all I would have used the magazine ot light the fire with." Chapters include: First trip to the wash; First trip to Islay; The Greg; Tony Wallace; First trip to the Ouse Washes; First trip to Pontoon Wash; Second trip to Pontoon Wash; A trip to the Solway Firth; Meeting Sid; A week at Wigtown Bay.
"The urge to go wildfowling all started when I was in bed with the flu, reading the articles in the shooting magazines. ...I blame it all on the articles I read, exciting and convincing me that there is so much pleasure [to be had] lying in the mud in the middle of the night, on some wild foreshore in Arctic conditions. ...If I had any sense at all I would have used the magazine ot light the fire with." Chapters include: First trip to the wash; First trip to Islay; The Greg; Tony Wallace; First trip to the Ouse Washes; First trip to Pontoon Wash; Second trip to Pontoon Wash; A trip to the Solway Firth; Meeting Sid; A week at Wigtown Bay.
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Book Code
62646
| Author | Raw (Vince). |
|---|---|
| Book Code | 62646 |
| ISBN | 0953908607 / 0953908607. |
| Book Description | Some use but a very good second-hand paperback. Copy no. 439 from an edition limited to 1000 copies. Signed by the author. |
| Book Cover | Paperback |
| Published Date | 2000 |
| Publisher | Published by the author. Galloway Cottages Publishing. |
| Place | Stronord, Newton Stewart. |