TALES OF A LONDON POACHER. By Cleve Edmonston.

2010 1st edition. 8vo paperback (155 x 233mm). Pp112. b/w vignette illustrations by Cheynne Edmonston, map.

Out-of-print and now difficult to find. Growing up in the East End of London, Cleve Edmonston might have been drawn to the bright lights of the city. Instead, he followed the instincts that led him to a secret world; a world where wildfowl and wood-pigeons flighted to and fro on the great London reservoirs, and where rabbits and deer were to be found in the wild scrubland that lay beyond the houses. Largely self-taught in the ways of wildlife and the countryside, Cleve became a proficient rifle-shot and pest controller, developing a lifelong interest in field sports. Following in the tradition of countryside writing set by The King Of The Norfolk Poachers, Cleve tells us, in his own words, his Tales Of A London Poacher.