RAMBLINGS OF A SPORTSMAN-NATURALIST
Written by BB
Illustrated by BB
Published by Michael Joseph
in 1979
ISBN: 0718118154
- Categorised in:
- FIELD SPORTS
- ANGLING
- NATURAL HISTORY
- SHOOTING
- WILDFOWL
- BUTTERFLIES
- BIOGRAPHY
RAMBLINGS OF A SPORTSMAN-NATURALIST
Written by BB.
Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 1329854
1st.
1979.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Drawn mainly from the sporting diaries he kept for many years, BB recalls numerous little adventures afield. A collection of happenings and impressions of the seasons, beautifully enhanced by dramatic b/w scraperboard illustrations throughout. Black boards, gilt lettering to spine. 176 pages. ISBN: 0718118154. Spine bumped. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Light page edge browning. Price-cut wrapper is slightly edge creased.
RAMBLINGS OF A SPORTSMAN-NATURALIST
Written by BB.
Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 2118022
1st.
1979.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Drawn mainly from the sporting diaries he kept for many years, BB recalls numerous little adventures afield. A collection of happenings and impressions of the seasons, beautifully enhanced by dramatic b/w scraperboard illustrations throughout. Black boards, gilt lettering to spine. 176 pages. ISBN: 0718118154. Inscription in ink and white label stuck to front endpaper. Odd foxspot to outer page edges. Wrapper is a little creased with some light edge-browning.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- 1 Butterfly Days
- 2 Experiments with Butterfly Conservation
- 3 Water Gardening
- 4 The Quiet Time
- 5 Sport in Ireland
- 6 The Lure of Big Fish
- 7 Fur and Feather
- 8 "To the North"
- 9 Spines and Scales
- 10 Tench Fishing
- 11 Disused Railway Cuttings
- 12 More About Iris
- 13 Pen, Pencil and Paint
- 14 Loch Leven and other Adventures
- 15 Hammer Wood - a Fantasy
- 16 Indian Summer
- 17 An Idle Interlude