"IT'LL BE ALRIGHT ON THE FLIGHT!": HUMOROUS STORIES FROM THREE DECADES OF WILDFOWLING. By Vince Raw. Second edition.

(2000) 2003 2nd edition. 8vo paperback (155 x 234mm). Pp192. B/w cartoon illustrations by the author.

"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. Stories from three decades of wildfowling misadventure.