WATERFOWL IN THE MARSHES. By A.C. Becker, Jr.

1969 1st edition. Large 8vo (166 x 260mm). Pp155. B/w photographs.

This book is "an informative and practical guide to the sport of waterfowling in America. A.C. Becker, Jr., a veteran outdoorsman and an experienced journalist, has incorporated the knowledge of over thirty years of waterfowling to bring to the reader an illustrated handbook on how to make this sport both enjoyable and rewarding, and yet keep it within the income of the working man". Chapters include: Whether the weather; Only they're wetter; The marble statue; Falsies in the marsh; Come see the etchings; That hoot and holler; By the numbers; One at a time; It's polite to point; The master eye; Patterns count; Whites of their eyes; The wild goose; The infantry; Clothes make the man; Walking them up; Sight unseen; A dog's life; Perils of Pauline; Sizing them up; Memories linger on; By any other name; Over the horizon.