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Présentation de l'éditeur
It is perhaps the fact of collaboration which makes a preface to a book of this sort necessary. More than two years ago Mr. Stanley Duncan and myself agreed that a complete Wildfowler should be written. A good deal of material was already available, most of it consisting of Mr. Stanley Duncan sconstant and valuable contributions to Tlie Shooting Times and The Field on the subject of wildfowling, the rest being my own notes extending over a considerable period of ones sporting life. From the time of Colonel Hawker until fifteen years ago, all the published books upon wildfowling were excellent in their measure and in their day. The later books have been excellent also, but have been shorter and more in the fashion of the handbook or manual. It seemed good, therefore, to the collaborators that they should make a sustained effort to produce a book which might possibly be a standard work for a considerable period. It will be as well to give some indication of the respective parts taken by the collaborators in the production of this work. It has fallen to me to be the general editor. It has been a labour of love and a strange relief from the continuous production of fiction. The book, however, owes its real value undoubtedly to the work in it of Mr. Stanley Duncan, the chief organiser and honorary secretary of the Wildfowlers A ssociation, and a sportsman whose name is as well known to all fowlers as his genial personality and remarkable excellence with the gun is known to a certain section of them. I myself have written the introductory parts and the chapters dealing with guns and ammunition, The Complete Gun-R oom, etc. etc. The important branch of shore shooting and the chapters on punt-gunning have been written by Mr. Stanley Duncan, though edited by me. The illustrations and diagrams are also the work of Mr. Stanley Duncan. The ornithological part is a joint
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