CONFESSIONS OF A SHOOTING FISHING MAN

By Laurence Catlow

Marks to closed page edges otherwise internally clean and tidy. Old damp stain to front board. A good-plus hardback in slightly stained and frayed dust-wrapper.

First edition, first printing.

1996 1st edition. 8vo (161 x 241mm). Ppxii,287 + 4pp ads. Not illustrated. Red boards, spine titled in gilt.

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"Is it right to shoot and fish for pleasure? Laurence Catlow faces the burning fieldsports issues of our time in this frank and revealing sporting diary of a year in Cumbria. Every hunting shooting fishing man should be armed with this."

"When Laurence Catlow, a 45-year-old classics master at a Cumbrian boarding school, sees a beautiful pheasant strutting in all its finery, he wants to kill it. In this diary of his sporting year, he asks himself, between days on the local rivers and shoots, why this is so. His answers are surprising, controversial and convincing. They provide an articulate response to the anti-fieldsports arguments, and he presents them in an entertaining, frank and amusing manner. During the year, Laurence's diary records his dream of buying some precipitous shooting ground on the Pennines, his fishing days on the Eden, Wharfe and other rivers, the arrival of a second gundog and days spent together on shoots. All this activity is interspersed with Laurence's quest for his true motives in killing what he most loves. He looks at foxhunting, vegetarianism, man as a hunter, man as created in God's image, and man as a creature doomed, himself, to die. This diary is highly topical, thought-provoking and original. Yet its tone is also very human and it comes from the pen of a true nature-lover." (Publisher's blurb).