SHOOTING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. Compiled by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound.

1926 1st edition. Foolscap. Ppvi,85. Side-stapled foolscap text-block, black cloth-tape spine to purple paper-coverd boards.

An interesting compilation of reports by sporting Royal Naval officers. "The enclosed notes on the shooting to be obtained at various places by the Mediterranean Fleet have been collected from many sources during the last 20 years. For information regarding many places in the Aegean or the Levant as it was known in 1893 to our predecessors, I am indebted to 'Sporting Notes in the Levant', published by Lieutenant (now Captain) Dayrell Davies who at that time was serving in the Trafalgar, one of the ships of the Levant Division. ...These notes have purposely been printed for private circulation only as it is not desired to give gratuitous information to possible poachers of the Fleet's preserves." Dudley Pound was Chief of Staff to the commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Fleet (and a Rear Admiral) at the time of publication. He served as First Sea Lord and Admiral of the Fleet from 1939 to 1943, dying of a brain tumour later that year. Chapters include: Safety first; Big game; Small game; Migration; Western Mediterranean; Adriatic and West Coast of Greece; The Aegean; Eastern Mediterranean; Sea of Marmora and Black Sea. Contains brief notes on trout fishing in Yugoslavia. An extremely rare piece of naval and sporting history.