(Q - ??: Is the book self-sufficient, or does it take a certain general knowledge to understand all that.)
MB : I think the book is self-sufficient. With the reservation that, at the time when the hunt was launched, you needed a few books, today it is still easy - very easy even - to access information on the web. The book is self-sufficient. Max Valentin was a very cultured person, so he talks about a certain number of things that he went looking for for hunting purposes. There are references that don't immediately come to everyone's mind, but everything is at hand, there is no problem. I don't see where there would be a need for highly specialized works.
MB : I think the book is self-sufficient. With the reservation that, at the time when the hunt was launched, you needed a few books, today it is still easy - very easy even - to access information on the web. The book is self-sufficient. Max Valentin was a very cultured person, so he talks about a certain number of things that he went looking for for hunting purposes. There are references that don't immediately come to everyone's mind, but everything is at hand, there is no problem. I don't see where there would be a need for highly specialized works.