Crisp, clear air and cold water are the sources of life.
It is a life implemented with guns and flyrods, populated by beautiful birds and dogs and fish stippled with rose-moles bright as neon.
It is a life of vast grassy space where dogs can run to their heart’s content, and a life of tiny, jumbled coverts where grouse and woodcock reside — wide, noisy, tumbling rivers where water brawls ceaselessly with stones, and narrow spring creeks where fish can find their elements that draws us to these places?
They can be cold and wet, scratchy and capable of drawing blood, can make us sweat and shiver at the same time.
These are places where only a few can find satisfactions not available to those who are fearful of any landscape not covered in concrete.
They are places that often lie just off the edges of maps. But they also are places where some can arrive dead-center in their own hearts and sportiest, and from there the view extends far beyond any visible horizons.
These places are composed of imagery as intense and weak-defined as those of any good poem. And like all good poets, we long to keep them safe and clear and useful for what generations may come.
Photography by Dale Spartas
A Tribute to the Hunting Dogs That Own Our Souls An Original Anthology (Volume 1)
190 Pages.
Leather-bound, Gold Embossed.
Signed & Numbered by the Publisher and Illustrator.
Anthology featuring some of the finest contemporary sporting writers: George Bird Evans, Charles Waterman, Gene Hill, Michael McIntosh, Jim Fergus, and many others. Each offers a story of his singular relationship with the dog (or dogs) that shaped his life. Buy Now
