 It stayed in print for some twenty years, and was reprinted in 1972.In his introduction to a 1976 reissue Dennis Wheatley said that it would "appeal to those who love shooting, hunting and magnificent descriptions of the beauties of nature".Mark Amory, writing in 1972, called it "now the best-known and loved of all his work"; he noted that the author's prose was here "eloquent but under control", and that it had "a feeling for the country and country people".