Michael Brander

PrefaceThis encyclopedia has been compiled with the primary intention of gathering together concisely the more important information available about the fauna which may be hunted in each country, the conditions of terrain and climate likely to be encountered, the laws concerning game licences and...

IntroductionIn the sixteenth-century world the meaning of the word hunting was all-embracing: it covered hunting with horses, hounds, guns, cross-bows or spears, as well as with traps and nets. Shooting, whether with a cross-bow or a match-lock gun, was merely one of the many ways of hunting....