The Birds of Northern Burma
(with Dr C B Tricehurst – Published 1938)
The Birds of the Vernay-Cutting Expedition to Northern Burma 1938/39
(with Dr E Mayr – Published 1941)
Far Ridges
(Published 1946)
A record of the authors travels in north-eastern Burma in 1938-39 primarily as part of the Vernay-Cutting expedition.
Mixed Bagman
(Published 1947)
A series of sketches set in the period 1911 to 1939 written primarily before the 1939-1945 War recounting odd days in odd places spent by the author with rifle or a gun or on a horse.
Reverie of a Qu’hai & other stories
(Published 1951)
The light hearted recounting of the authors time as an Indian Civil Servant between the wars covering issues with which a bureaucrat in Burma had to deal: crime, floods and murder trials among others. ‘Other Stories’ take the reader into the English countryside where the author’s meets the incursions of officialdom, the lot of a small farmer and aspects of the Edwardian era.
No Sportsman At All
(Published 1952)
The author’s thoughts and feelings about experiences gained in a wide variety of field-sports covering a year of activity.
A Survey of the Ornithology of Libya
(Published 1954)
A Bewilderment of Birds
(Published 1954)
A book about birds so unusual as well as being a record of travel, adventure and ornithological discovery. The journeys recalled took the author to Burma, Africa, Scandinavia and back to the marshes of his boyhood in Suffolk.
British Friesians: a history of the breed
(Published 1956)
The history of ‘them owd Dutchmen’, the once derided back-and-white Dutch Friesian cattle breed.
The Wandering Gun
(Published 1960)
The joys and agonies of days spent with a gun on many of the great estates of England and Scotland, the habits and characteristics of game-birds and the maddening but endearing aspects of the retriever. The book is enlivened by humorous anecdotes taken from life and literature.
Ladies in the Sun
(Published 1962)
This book studies the lives of British ladies in India and what took them to their strange destiny at a time when cholera, smallpox, plague and dysentery took an appalling toll and where life was often short and those who survived beyond the age of 30 might marry many times and would never see England again.
Partridge Shooting
(The Shooting Times Library – Published 1963)
Partridge shooting from the author’s wide experience.
Grouse Shooting
(The Shooting Times Library – Published 1963)
Grouse shooting from the author’s wide experience.
Tail of an Army
(Published 1966)
An autobiographical account reaching back into years as a regimental officer in the 1914-18 War, inter-war years as a colonial administrator in Burma and the 1939-1945 War first in a National Defence Company and then in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in France, the Western Desert and in Western Europe after D-Day.
The Complex Gun
(Published 1968)
Between the end of WW2 and the 1960s the face of the shooting world changed significantly. This book considers how those complex beings that knew shooting adapted themselves to the gusts of change. It is asserted that ‘the ever changing pattern’ of shooting is like a carpet now bright, now dark, in places tattered and holed, but with vivid new patches in existence.