A SHOOT OF YOUR OWN: THE AMATEUR GAMEKEEPER AT WORK. By Michael Kemp.

1978 1st edition. 8vo (157 x 240mm). Pp182. B/w photographs and line illustrations, brief bibliography. Pale yellow boards, spine titled in gilt.

"Any enthusiast, however limited for money, can preserve game and improve the shooting on almost any lowland farming area. The craft of the gamekeeper is not as mysterioues as many of the professionals like to make it, and Michael Kemp has himself put into practice all the advice he gives - most of it many times". Chapters include: The amateur game keeper emerges; Starting work on the ground; Making game welcome; Modern traps and snares; Strategy and methods reviewed; Improving the habitat; Cheaper food for game; Attracting wild duck; The wood pigeon; Rabbits; Partridges and 'various'; Wild pheasants; What good management can achieve without rearing; Rearing on a small scale; Rearing pheasants; Releasing pheasants; Producing pheasants' eggs; Hatching pheasants's eggs in incubators; Producing extra-good pheasants; Accounts and records; Organising shooting days; Everyday problems.