The Shooting Man's Bedside Book
Published on 15. November 2019
224 pages
978-1-913159-05-4 (ISBN)
Description
'After a day on the moors, stubbles, or a woodland day, I like to take up a book beside my fire and read of other good long days past and gone. Such I have tried to make this volume.' - BB
First compiled by BB in 1946, he aimed to create a book which was largely composed of the best descriptive writings on the sport of shooting. These pages are packed with evocative and stirring passages for sportsmen to enjoy after a day out and during the long winter evenings.
The extracts chosen represent some of the greatest writers from Richard Jefferies to the poet John Masefield.
BB himself, one of the most evocative writers on the countryside, is well represented in both his writings and his fine scraperboard illustrations.
First compiled by BB in 1946, he aimed to create a book which was largely composed of the best descriptive writings on the sport of shooting. These pages are packed with evocative and stirring passages for sportsmen to enjoy after a day out and during the long winter evenings.
The extracts chosen represent some of the greatest writers from Richard Jefferies to the poet John Masefield.
BB himself, one of the most evocative writers on the countryside, is well represented in both his writings and his fine scraperboard illustrations.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
50 Illustrations, black and white
File size
7,16 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-913159-05-4 (9781913159054)
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Book
02/2004
Merlin Unwin Books
€44.80
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Person
Denys Watkins-Pitchford, or 'BB' as he is known, was born in 1905. He grew up in Northamptonshire, where he spent many hours out in the open air as ill health prevented him from being sent to boarding school.
He studied art in Paris and at The Royal College of Art in London, and for seventeen years was art master at Rugby School.
He was already illustrating books before he began to write under his pseudonym, 'BB'.
The Sportsman's Bedside Book (1937) was the first to carry these now famous initials, followed by Wild Lone, the Story of the Pytchley Fox (1939) and Manka, The Sky Gypsy, The Story of a Wild Goose (1939). He was awarded the Carnegie Medal for The Little Grey Men (1941), the tale of the last gnomes in England, which established him in the forefront of literature for children. Many titles followed for both adults and children, and his reputation as a naturalist was further enhanced by his contributions to The Field, Country Life and Shooting Times.
He died in 1990.
He studied art in Paris and at The Royal College of Art in London, and for seventeen years was art master at Rugby School.
He was already illustrating books before he began to write under his pseudonym, 'BB'.
The Sportsman's Bedside Book (1937) was the first to carry these now famous initials, followed by Wild Lone, the Story of the Pytchley Fox (1939) and Manka, The Sky Gypsy, The Story of a Wild Goose (1939). He was awarded the Carnegie Medal for The Little Grey Men (1941), the tale of the last gnomes in England, which established him in the forefront of literature for children. Many titles followed for both adults and children, and his reputation as a naturalist was further enhanced by his contributions to The Field, Country Life and Shooting Times.
He died in 1990.
Content
- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION: Duff Hart-Davis
- FOREWORD: 'BB'
- BOYHOOD MEMORIES
- The First Gun
- The First Gun
- Wildfowling Adventures
- Memories of Boyhood
- A Plover and a Policeman
- A Human Retriever
- A MIXED BAG
- Red Grouse
- British Red Grouse
- Queer but True: The Oddest Shot on Record
- Blackgame
- Sporting Epitaph
- 'Perdix Perdu'
- Partridges and Turnips
- The Rabbits and the Partridges
- Proud Father
- How to Kill Ptarmigan
- Escape From an Avalanche
- A Well-Known Jingle
- Bird of Splendour
- The Christmas Cock Pheasant
- A Royal Shoot
- Tips on Shooting Wood Pigeons
- Shooting Snipe
- A Pet Snipe
- Snipe Caught on the Wing
- My Woodcock
- The Great Swan of Lochlee
- Carving Game
- Warm Corners
- SOME RECORD BAGS OF GAME
- Record Bags
- Largest Bag on Record (World) with Shoulder Guns Mixed Game
- Record Bags
- Record Shoots for Pheasants, Partridges and Chamois
- A Grisly Record
- Record Bags
- The World's Worst Shot
- Two or More at a Shot
- Rights and Lefts
- Big Bags
- Record Shot at Wigeon
- THE GREAT BUSTARD
- Decline and Fall of the Great Bustard
- The Great Bustard in Spain
- GUN DOGS
- Poodles as Shooting Dogs
- The Dog and the Dentures
- Sir Henry Mildmay's Pig Pointer
- One Autumn Day
- GAMEKEEPERS AND POACHERS
- Tom Peregrine, the Keeper
- Shooting in a High Wind
- 'There will John More be Found'
- The Character of the Modern Poacher
- 'A Rabbit Hunter'
- DEER STALKING
- In October
- The Best Day for Stalking
- High and to the Left
- The White Hind
- The Muckle Hart of Benmore
- Stalking Stories
- WILDFOWLING
- The Finest Sport in the World
- Flighting
- Flighting Wigeon on Kirkconnon Bay
- 'His Royal Highness'
- Tide's Ending
- The Coming of the Wild Geese
- Wild Geese on Migration
- Colonel Hawker
- Wells-next-the-Sea
- The Wild Duck
- Wild Wings
- Wildfowling in Ireland
- Punt Gunning
- Some Useful Tips for Wildfowlers
- Wild-Goose Shooting
- Geese of the Carolinas
- 'LET US BE ALWAYS OUT OF DOORS'
- The English Winter
- 'The 21st of September, 1741.'
- The Old Squire (South Country)
- The Old Squire (North Country)
- The Sporting Dairymen of Sedgemoor
- The Border Moors
- 'A Something the Ancients Called Divine'
- INDEX OF AUTHORS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- COPYRIGHT
