WATERFOWLING THESE PAST FIFTY YEARS: ESPECIALLY BRANT. By David Hagerbaumer.

1998 1st edition. 4to (220 x 267mm). Pp182. B/w illustrations by the author throughout, foreword by Dwight Schuh. Decorative silver-gilt black boards, silver-gilt titles to upper board and spine.

"This book is not a literary masterpiece with flawlessly crafted phrases, impeccable sentence structuring and punctuation. Any competent editor could have done that for me, but it would not have sounded like Dave Hagerbaumer, man of few letters. ...Very simply, the pages to follow will be a compilation of some of my experiences as a waterfowler since the end of World War II. My first days in the marsh date back to 1929. This book covers the time-span of a tad over half a century and geographically the total of our Pacific Coast". A good read, with numerous excellent and entirely apposite illustrations by the author. Chapters include: The San Diego period; Carson City; santa Barbara; Ashland; Independence; willapa Bay; Skagit; Padilla Bay; close to home; The now.