NORFOLK FOWLER. By Alan Savory.

1953 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 222mm). Ppxii,148. B/w photographs. Green boards, spine titled in silver-gilt.

"This is the tale of days and nights of enchantment spent with dog and gun in some of the wildest and loveliest corners of the British Isles. I was born and brought up among the marshes and shining waters of East Norfolk, a part of England that is still largely unspoiled, still a whisper of the ancient and beautiful England of the Saxon." Memories of wildfowling and rough shooting in Norfolk between the wars; the author's houseboat on Breydon Water, recollections of the old professional gunners, snipe shooting, war on otters and much else. Chapters include: The Norfolk scene; Dog and duck; The first duck; With the old gunners; September tides; Wells Next The Sea; Moonlight and east winds; Wild marshland; Island days; The Syndicate; Claxton marshes; War with the otters; Snipe shooting; When the sea broke through; Diving duck.