Nature Book Reader June 2020 - Flipbook - Page 99
wildfowling experiences
on the North Norfolk salt
marshes and the Fife coast.
The time spent waiting
and watching seems to
correspond closely to that
which many of us as anglers
have spent on the bank side.
The two pursuits seem to
have evolved from the same
impulse, although the quarry
is very different. I came to see
shooting, or at least his kind
of shooting, in an entirely
new way.
A deeply instructive
celebration of the outdoor life.
I was left with a sense of his
deep reverence for the natural
world.
Further Reading
Book of Eels
by Tom Fort
Whale Nation
by Heathcote Williams
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