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Informationen zum Autor By Stephen Bodio Klappentext Stephen J. Bodio’s famous review column in Gray’s Sporting Journal (1981-1992) included discussions on everything from hook and bullet how-tos to modern novels and science writing. Continuing in that tradition, A Sportsman’s Library: 100 Essential, Engaging, Off-Beat, and Occasionally Odd Fishing and Hunting Books for the Adventurous Reader draws on the same wide-ranging curiosity and encyclopedic knowledge of sporting literature that informed “Bodio’s Review.” From all the familiar, beloved classics—books by Izaak Walton, Robert Ruark, and Norman Maclean—to the hidden gems that no one but Bodio could have uncovered (ancient treatises on falconry, and modern considerations of the “catfish as metaphor”), each one of these short reviews is illustrated in color and presented in a browsable, easy-to-read format. Nowhere else could an explanation of the intricate beauty of a classic salmon fly rub elbows with a consideration of the craftsmanship of a Best London double. And rarely do you see the science of the hunt juxtaposed against the hunt’s depiction in art. Introduction by television personality and outdoor writer Jameson Parker. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Part 1: Fishing Chapter 1: Sheridan Anderson, Curtis Creek ManifestoChapter 2: Jim Babb, Fly Fishing FoolChapter 3: Dame Juliana Berners, Book of St Albans, etc. Chapter 4: Burkhard Bilger, Noodling for FlatheadsChapter 5: Russell Chatham, Dark WatersChapter 6: David James Duncan, The River WhyChapter 7: Negley Farson, Gone FishingChapter 8: John Gierach, Trout BumChapter 9: Arnold Gingrich, Well-tempered AnglerChapter 10: Roderick Haig-Brown, A River Never SleepsChapter 11: Ted Hughes, Collected PoemsChapter 12: William Humphrey, My Moby DickChapter 13: Luke Jennings, Blood KnotChapter 14: Nick Lyons, Full CreelChapter 15: Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through ItChapter 16: Teresa Maggio, MattanzaChapter 17: Gavin Maxwell, Harpoon VentureChapter 18: John McDonald, Origins of AnglingChapter 19: Thomas McGuane, 92 In the ShadeChapter 20: Frank Mele, Small in the Eye of a RiverChapter 21: Harry Middleton, On the Spine of TimeChapter 22: Seth Norman, Meanderings of a Fly FishermanChapter 23: Patrick O’Brien, The Last PoolChapter 24: Datus Proper, What the Trout SaidChapter 25: M H Salmon, The Catfish as MetaphorChapter 26: Paul Schmookler, Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A Natural HistoryChapter 27: O’Dell Shepard, Thy Rod and Thy ReelChapter 28: G. E. M. Skues, Way of a TroutChapter 29: Jeremy Wade, River MonstersChapter 30: Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler WINGSHOOTING Chapter 31: “BB” (Denys Watkins Pitchford): Manka the Sky GypsyChapter 32: William Beebe, Pheasant JunglesChapter 33: Vance Bourjaily, Unnatural EnemyChapter 34: Tom Davis, The Tattered Autumn SkyChapter 35: George Bird Evans, The Upland Shooting LifeChapter 36: Charles Fergus, A Rough Shooting DogChapter 37: William Harnden Foster, New England Grouse ShootingChapter 38: Caroline Gordon, Aleck Maury, SportsmanChapter 39: Col. Peter Hawker, Instructions to Young Sportsmen…Chapter 40: Van Campen Heilner, American Duck ShootingChapter 41: “Mr.” Markland, The Art of Shooting FlyingChapter 42: Timothy Murphy, A Hunter’s LogChapter 43: Datus Proper, Pheasants of the MindChapter 44: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross CreekChapter 45: Ivan Turgenev, Sportsman’s NotebooksChapter 46: Guy de la Valdene, The Fragrance of GrassChapter 47: Charley Waterman, Gun Dogs and Bird GunsGENERAL HUNTING, GUNS, TRAVEL, MIXED, & MISCELLANEOUS(includes falconry and some odd fishing)Chapter 48: Roy Chapman Andrews, Across Mongolian PlainsChapter 49: V. K. Arseniev, Dersu the TrapperChapter 50: John Barsness, The Life of the HuntChapter 51: Peter Beard, The End of the GameChapter 52: W. D. M. Bell, Wanderings of an Elephant HunterChapter 53: Caroline Blackwood, In the PinkChapter 54: Angus Came...
