Описание: Golden Years, Golden Hours is an outdoor writer`s musings and stories on his passions for fly-fishing, upland hunting and bird dogs. The author also reflects on the inevitability of aging, as he reflects on a full life and his continuing enthusiasm for maintaining an active outdoor lifestyle.
Описание: While There Were Still Wild Birds is a personal history of Southern quail hunting as it was lived at three different South Carolina quail hunting clubs and by related dog trainers, hunting guides, and hunters. The author's father, Richard E. Rankin, Sr., belonged to the first hunting club in Kline, South Carolina, and was a founding partner in the second hunting club, the Quail Roost Hunt Club, outside Manning, South Carolina. The third club featured was the Foreston Hunt Club, an adjoining neighbor of the Quail Roost Hunt Club. As both a family member, hunt club partner, and historian, Richard E. Rankin, Jr. tells this story as both a participant and as an objective observer. This study covers a span of time from the mid 1930s-when Southern quail hunting was still a popular and important field sport-through and after the mid 1980s when the massive collapse of the quail population ended wild bird hunting. The book explores the character and meaning of Southern quail hunting in a particular setting. It emphasizes the importance of hunting fellowship (especially between the author, his friends, father, and other hunting associates) and the way in which bird hunting leads to a dramatic encounter with wildness. Because Southern quail hunting was part of the larger culture, the book also discusses how race, gender, and environmental change impacted Southern quail hunting.
Описание: With skillful storytelling, Matthew McKenzie weaves together the industrial, cultural, political, and ecological history of New England`s fisheries through the story of how the Boston haddock fleet - one of the region`s largest and most heavily industrialized - rose, flourished, and then fished itself into near oblivion before the arrival of foreign competition in 1961.
Описание: Every few years, a book comes along that makes an important contribution to the history of American sport, even though—or, maybe, because—its storyline delves into the obscure. The event that launches the narrative in Shooting for the Record is the 1959 news report that strapping and handsome Tom Frye had broken sharpshooting’s endurance world record after he shot at 100,000 hand-thrown wooden cubes and missed only six. But even as the Guinness Book of World Records immortalized Frye, previous record-holder Adolph Toepperwein, having just reached his 90th birthday, was sitting down to write a letter accusing Frye of cheating. Frye and Toepperwein were the two top-performing riflemen in the history of shooting sports, with the span of one generation separating them. Both had performed hundreds of sharpshooting exhibitions on behalf of major firearms manufacturers Winchester and Remington. Shooting for the Record reminds readers of America’s longtime fascination with the shooting sports. It's a story that explores far beyond the nearly-superhuman feats of these two individuals. The author reaches back to the grand productions of 1880s Wild West shows and tracks the growth of shooting sports through today.
Автор: Samuel J. Hunnicutt Название: Twenty Years Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains ISBN: 1469634007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469634005 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3326.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1926, Twenty Years Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains is a vivid, firsthand account of life in rural Appalachia. Samuel J. Hunnicutt was an avid and accomplished outdoorsman. Hunnicutt`s original work, long considered a lost classic, is presented here in an unaltered facsimile edition with a new introduction by Jim Casada.
Автор: Underwood Lamar Название: Great American Hunting Stories: Lyons Press Classics ISBN: 1493040421 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493040421 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 2532.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Here are some of the best hunting tales ever written, stories that sweep from charging lions in the African bush to mountain goats in the mountain crags of the Rockies; from the gallant bird dogs of the Southern pinelands to the great Western hunts of Theodore Roosevelt. Great American Hunting Stories captures the very soul of hunting.
Описание: Traces the theme of hunting and fishing in American art from the early nineteenth century to World War II. Describing a remarkable group of American paintings and sculpture, the contributors reveal the pervasiveness of the subjects and the fascinating contexts from which they emerged.
Автор: Lyon Tolbert J. Название: Lyon Hunts & Humor: True Life Hunting and Adventure Stories ISBN: 0865341486 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780865341487 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2752.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection of true life hunting and wilderness stories gives a telling insight into a period of the American West that had a philosophy and humor all its own. A time that has faded and will soon be lost forever. "Shorty" Lyon, a widely-published writer, is best known as a hunter/trapper/philosopher but he was also a pioneer, homesteader, miner, mill hand, woodcutter, forester, conservationist, rancher, hunting guide, farmer and an honored member of The New Mexico Trapper's Hall of Fame.
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