Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Nature and Sport in Britain
Yet to those who cultivate its friendship and seek its pleasures, Pevensey Marsh has a wonderful charm of its own. Its wide skies, its spacious sunrises and sun sets, its rolling autumn mists, the pleasant hills that enlap it, the lonely line of Martello towers along its seaward aspect, the magnificent contours of Beachy Head and the rampart of South Downs that rise west ward, the fat green pastures, the well-to-do cattle - all these things carry with them much contentment to the wandering and observant eye. Thoroughly to appre ciate the sport and the wild life of the Marsh and its shore-line, one must, of course, serve a somewhat close apprenticeship. Nature requires wooing, and it takes time and patience to induce her to yield up her secrets. It takes time, too, to become familiar with the country people, their sports, ways, legends, and the curious knowledge that has descended to them from remote times. It was two or three years, for instance, before I became acquainted with a Marsh eel-fisher and his methods. Seeing an old, rugged-looking fellow one day tramping along the road with a great canvas bag.
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