Wildfowling Past & Present

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9781443797115 - Wildfowling Past & Present - Tony Read
9781443797115 - Wildfowling Past & Present - Tony Read
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Wildfowling Past & Present

An Anthology

Wildfowling is the most romantic and challenging of all the field sports. Well known writers are included in this anthology, writing about the brilliance and passion of the sport.

SKU: 9781443797115 Categories: Sports | Hunting & Shooting | Birds & Birdwatching | Nature & Natural World |

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Wildfowling is the most romantic, exciting and challenging of all the field sports. All wildfowlers have a little poetry in their souls. The majority of fowlers are thoroughgoing individualists. A typical wildfowler is a true hunter, bred and born – a lone wolf pitting his wits and knowledge against the wiles of some of the wariest and fastest birds on earth. Taking all this into account it is no surprise that wildfowling has fascinated a great many well known writers as well as inspiring many lesser known and even amateur writers to write with brilliance and passion about their sport. In this book I have attempted to select a number of gems and rarities of fowling literature from famous writers as well as including notes, articles and snippets from less well known, but nevertheless, enthusiastic scribes. This anthology will, I hope, help preserve some of the more obscure wildfowling tales for gunners of the future.

Several of the post war wildfowling stories include those of writers who contributed to now defunct sporting periodicals of that era. Their stories I consider masterpieces of the genre and have been included for the benefit of future generations. In some cases it has been impossible to communicate with them or their relatives, who may contact the publishers if they so wish.

Book Details

Author

Tony Read

Imprint

Read Country Books

ISBN

9781443797115, 9781406787795, 9781473388260

Formats Available

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Pages

324

Publication Date

21 November 2011

Dimensions 5.5 × 8.5 in

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