Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian
British Game
Collins New Naturalist series no.2, 1946.1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./V.g. Jacket price-clipped, little worn.Owner's heraldic bookplate on front pastedown.28 colour plates, 81 monochrome photographs.Eight short chapters on game birds, four on wildfowl and three on waders, followed by a section on 'ground game and various' (e.g.rabbits, hares and pigeons).The book concludes with three chapters on red, fallow and roe deer and a final section on the preservation of game.Written by a former editor of ""The Field"", this book stretches the definition of a 'new naturalist' somewhat as it adopts a highly traditional perspectives on British wildlife, e.g.""many shooting men would rather bag one woodcock in a day than half a dozen brace of pheasants"".In English.1 kg.
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