Amid a field of more than 1,900 entries, Chris Dorsey’s latest book, Call Time was named as a finalist for the prestigious Ben Franklin Award from the Independent Book Publishers Association. Call Time is one of three finalists for the Gold Award for Sports & Recreation category. The IBPA is the world’s largest association of book publishers and is widely regarded as among the most prestigious awards in the world of books. “We are grateful to be recognized for this monumental team effort,” says Dorsey. “We set out a long time ago to marry insightful prose with the images of the world’s most talented sporting life photographers to create an enduring work, and the result is an epic celebration of wingshooting.”
Call Time is a visually stunning 300-page landscape volume that takes the reader to distant corners of the globe to create an indelible portrait of wingshooting. The stunning, large-format book chronicles 18 different wingshooting adventures on four continents. Its chapters feature pheasant, bobwhite quail, ruffed grouse, woodcock, greywing francolin, ocellated turkey, spurfowl, sandgrouse, duck, goose, perdiz, dove, and driven shoots for red-legged partridge, guineafowl, pheasants and grouse.
Internationally acclaimed photographers Dusan Smetana, Marcos Furer, Lee Kjos, Gary Kramer, John MacGillivray and many others spent thousands of hours in remote locations to capture a stunning collection of images that help make the 300-page opus an instant classic. Each chapter features a 10-minute corresponding film shot on location during the creation of Call Time.
Call Time was already awarded a gold medal from the 14,000-member Non-Fiction Author’s Association, the highest award the organization bestows on a book.
Copies of Call Time signed by the author are available at the Sporting Classics Online Store.
The world of sporting literature has a new classic from one of the planet’s most widely traveled hunters. Call Time…The World of Wingshooting with the largest outdoor TV producer in history, is a book and film production more than 30 years in the making. Author and Executive Producer Chris Dorsey, along with a team of the world’s best sporting life photographers and cinematographers, embarked on expeditions to distant corners of the globe to create an indelible portrait of wingshooting. Buy Now
