THE SHORE SHOOTER. By Alan Savory. The Boydell Country Library.

(1956) 1983 new edition. Small 8vo paperback (120 x 196mm). Ppvi,149. Unillustrated.

Norfolk wildfowling and pike fishing. "Alan Savory has spent his life shooting and fishing on the Broads and on the coast of Norfolk, and this book is his account of days and nights spent in his favourite pursuits. Few other writers can match his descriptions of the natural beauty of this bleak and lonely world; and few can turn so easily from such a scene to lively and entertaining stories of their adventures (and misadventures). ...A magical book by one of the best sporting writers of our time." First published as Lazy Rivers, Geoffrey Bles, 1956, this Country Library paperback edition lacks the photographs of the original. Chapters include: The shore shooter; Ragamuffin dog; The red dog; Fresh marshes and cold weather; Lazy fishing; Coypu Marsh; Teal and teal shooting; Pheasants in the reed-beds; Opening day; The Brandy Hole flight pond; Flight ponds and flood-water; The Bure and the Yare; The Tas and the Wensum; On a Sligo snipe bog; A fall of 'cock; Eels on the pick; Some pike fishing experiences; Morning flight; Sea-side partridge shoot.