Title: Notes of a provincial wildfowler
First published: 1998
Description: "The companion volume to his popular Notes on Fishing, Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler is Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov's guide to the bird species of his native Russia." "Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler is filled with precise descriptions of the various game that it treats: detailed accounts of the behavior of birds, observations on their life cycles, and lyrical discourses on the habitats - marsh, water, and forest - that comprise the Russian steppe.".

"Offering a rich multitude of viewpoints philosophical, literary, linguistic, ethnographic, and environmental - Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler will appeal to a wide audience of readers, from birders to historians to those who relish fine literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fowling, Birds, Birds, soviet union, Russian literature, history and criticism
Places: Russia
LC classification: SK316.R9 A3913 1998