A Lifetime of Fly-Fishing Tales

A Lifetime of Fly-Fishing Tales

In The Last Best Day, Michael Altizer shares moments and meditations from a lifetime of fly fishing on streams from the Appalachians to Alaska. For the first several decades of my life, the greening up time of spring meant single-minded obsession with sparkling waters...
The Ultimate Gift for Those Pining for Africa

The Ultimate Gift for Those Pining for Africa

Robert Ruark books from the personal library of his professional hunter, Harry Selby, are the ultimate gift for those pining for Africa. For many who love and live for Africa, the writings of Robert Ruark are the next-best thing to being on safari. In point of fact,...
Lynn Bogue Hunt: Angler, Hunter, Artist

Lynn Bogue Hunt: Angler, Hunter, Artist

Great Holiday Gift! $25 Hardcover with Dust Jacket, 180 Pages.   Angler, hunter and above all artist, Lynn Bogue Hunt was America’s most popular and prolific outdoor illustrator of the mid-20th century. He painted a record 106 covers for Field & Stream;...
Down the Writer’s Rabbit Hole

Down the Writer’s Rabbit Hole

What is writing, if not the sharing and resharing of life itself? It’s done.   Finished.   Written and designed; printed, bound and finally shipping out to a host of readers, both old and new…this latest book that’s been growing from my head and heart and...
A Creel Full of Fine Angling Reads

A Creel Full of Fine Angling Reads

The richest of the various veins of sporting literature almost certainly is that devoted to angling in general and particularly fly fishing. It has a long, venerable history, dating all the way back to Dame Juliana Berners late 15th century work,...
True to the Bird: An Oysterman’s Sporting Legacy

True to the Bird: An Oysterman’s Sporting Legacy

Oysterman and artist, Gilbert Maggioni, married late and had no children. He passed his legacy to two young men, William Rhett of Beaufort and Grainger McKoy of Sumter. Gilbert Maggioni was an ornery old cuss most people said. He cussed the weather and he cussed the...
Why Do Women Hunt?

Why Do Women Hunt?

In her book Why Women Hunt, K.J. Houtman features stories of some of the women who are contributing to the growing percentage of women in America who hunt. If you’ve ever had the notion to take a woman hunting, you’re onto something pretty special. As K.J. Houtman...
A Book to Stir the Sporting Spirit

A Book to Stir the Sporting Spirit

A piece of artwork speaks to the soul in a fashion even the most exquisite photographs cannot accomplish. Sulkowski’s paintings do that for me. The visual aspects of life astream and afield have long captured the fancy of discerning sportsmen. Witness, for example,...