Book Review

Winter Reading

Herewith are reports on a memoir by a prominent English shotgunner, a manual that will make you a better breaker of clays, a celebration of waterfowl and the wet and wonderful places through which those beautiful travelers pass, and a cookbook filled with simple and toothsome recipes. A Shooting Man's Creed By Sir Joseph Nickerson (Swan Hill Press; distributed by Stackpole Books, 800-732-3669, www.stackpolebooks.com; 2004) 264 pp. $32.95, hardcover. When Joseph Nickerson was 17, he vowed "to set aside 100 days a year for sport" for the rest of his life-"shooting, fox-hunting and skiing" in his native Britain and elsewhere.

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