ON THE DEER PATH. By David Barrington Barnes.

2012 1st edition. 8vo paperback (157 x 233mm). Ppxiv,153. Colour photographs, small b/w chapter heading vignettes.

David Barrington Barnes is a lowland deer stalker of many years' experience. He "makes no claims to expertise in the art of deerstalking and nor does he seek to instruct tyros. Rather the book is a celebration of his great interest in the pursuit of wild deer in the woods and fields of his native East Anglia. David's experiences on the ground are recorded in detail and he often evokes the atmosphere and tensions of the hunt as he leads the reader in a selection of the many stalks he has enjoyed or, in some cases endured, throughout different seasons of the year." Chapters include: The hunter's horn; Starting deer stalking; My first roe buck; Bourn Valley Farms; Some interesting stalks; Deer by wet places and ponds; Peninsular Farm; A deerstalking partnership; Estate deer management; Fallow bucks and prickets; Small barking deer; The female of the species; My deer dogs; Guest stalkers; Foxes, other animals and invertebrates; Hitting and missing; Over my shoulder.