Table of Contents
Part 1: Fishing
Chapter 1: Sheridan Anderson, Curtis Creek Manifesto
Chapter 2: Jim Babb, Fly Fishing Fool
Chapter 3: Dame Juliana Berners, Book of St Albans, etc.
Chapter 4: Burkhard Bilger, Noodling for Flatheads
Chapter 5: Russell Chatham, Dark Waters
Chapter 6: David James Duncan, The River Why
Chapter 7: Negley Farson, Gone Fishing
Chapter 8: John Gierach, Trout Bum
Chapter 9: Arnold Gingrich, Well-tempered Angler
Chapter 10: Roderick Haig-Brown, A River Never Sleeps
Chapter 11: Ted Hughes, Collected Poems
Chapter 12: William Humphrey, My Moby Dick
Chapter 13: Luke Jennings, Blood Knot
Chapter 14: Nick Lyons, Full Creel
Chapter 15: Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It
Chapter 16: Teresa Maggio, Mattanza
Chapter 17: Gavin Maxwell, Harpoon Venture
Chapter 18: John McDonald, Origins of Angling
Chapter 19: Thomas McGuane, 92 In the Shade
Chapter 20: Frank Mele, Small in the Eye of a River
Chapter 21: Harry Middleton, On the Spine of Time
Chapter 22: Seth Norman, Meanderings of a Fly Fisherman
Chapter 23: Patrick O’Brien, The Last Pool
Chapter 24: Datus Proper, What the Trout Said
Chapter 25: M H Salmon, The Catfish as Metaphor
Chapter 26: Paul Schmookler, Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A
Natural History
Chapter 27: O’Dell Shepard, Thy Rod and Thy Reel
Chapter 28: G. E. M. Skues, Way of a Trout
Chapter 29: Jeremy Wade, River Monsters
Chapter 30: Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
WINGSHOOTING
Chapter 31: “BB” (Denys Watkins Pitchford): Manka the Sky Gypsy
Chapter 32: William Beebe, Pheasant Jungles
Chapter 33: Vance Bourjaily, Unnatural Enemy
Chapter 34: Tom Davis, The Tattered Autumn Sky
Chapter 35: George Bird Evans, The Upland Shooting Life
Chapter 36: Charles Fergus, A Rough Shooting Dog
Chapter 37: William Harnden Foster, New England Grouse Shooting
Chapter 38: Caroline Gordon, Aleck Maury, Sportsman
Chapter 39: Col. Peter Hawker, Instructions to Young Sportsmen…
Chapter 40: Van Campen Heilner, American Duck Shooting
Chapter 41: “Mr.” Markland, The Art of Shooting Flying
Chapter 42: Timothy Murphy, A Hunter’s Log
Chapter 43: Datus Proper, Pheasants of the Mind
Chapter 44: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek
Chapter 45: Ivan Turgenev, Sportsman’s Notebooks
Chapter 46: Guy de la Valdene, The Fragrance of Grass
Chapter 47: Charley Waterman, Gun Dogs and Bird Guns
GENERAL HUNTING, GUNS, TRAVEL, MIXED, & MISCELLANEOUS
(includes falconry and some odd fishing)
Chapter 48: Roy Chapman Andrews, Across Mongolian Plains
Chapter 49: V. K. Arseniev, Dersu the Trapper
Chapter 50: John Barsness, The Life of the Hunt
Chapter 51: Peter Beard, The End of the Game
Chapter 52: W. D. M. Bell, Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter
Chapter 53: Caroline Blackwood, In the Pink
Chapter 54: Angus Cameron & Judith Jones: LL Bean Game & Fish Cookbook
Chapter 55: Jim Corbett, Maneaters of Kumaon
Chapter 56: Frank & John Craighead, Life With an Indian Prince
Chapter 57: Isaak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), Out of Africa
Chapter 58: William Faulkner, The Big Woods
Chapter 59: Emperor Frederick II, De Arte Venandi cum Avibus
Chapter 60: John Graves, The Last Running
Chapter 61: Dale Guthrie, The Nature of Paleolithic Art
Chapter 62: John Haines, The Stars, The Snows, The Fire
Chapter 63: Frances Hamerstrom, Is She Coming Too?
Chapter 64: Jim Harrison, Just Before Dark
Chapter 65: MacDonald Hastings, The Shotgun
Chapter 66: The Helmericks, We Live in the Arctic
Chapter 67: Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa
Chapter 68: George Leonard Herter, Bull Cook and Authentic Historical
recipes and Practices;
Chapter 69: Frank Hibben, Hunting American Lions
Chapter 70: Geoffrey Household, Dance of the Dwarves
Chapter 71: William Humphrey, Home From the Hill
Chapter 72: Steve Hunter, Pale Horse Coming
Chapter 73: Joe Hutto, Illumination in the Flatwoods
Chapter 74: C. J. P. Ionides, A Hunter’s Story
Chapter 75: Robert F. Jones, Blood Sport
Chapter 76: Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac
Chapter 77: Dan Mannix, A Sporting Chance
Chapter 78: Thomas McGuane, An Outside Chance
Chapter 79: Thomas McIntyre, Seasons and Days
Chapter 80: Richard Nelson, The Island Within
Chapter 81: Jose Ortega y Gasset, Meditations on Hunting
Chapter 82: Jack O’Connor, Hunting in the Southwest
Chapter 83: Rebecca O’Connor, Lift
Chapter 84: Brian Plummer, Diary of a Rat Hunting Man
Chapter 85: Saxton Pope, Hunting With the Bow and Arrow
Chapter 86: Mikhail Prishvin, Nature’s Diary
Chapter 87: Steven Rinella, The Scavenger’s Guide to Haut Cuisine
Chapter 88: Teddy Roosevelt, Wilderness Hunter
Chapter 89: John Rowlands, Cache Lake Country
Chapter 99: Robert Ruark, Something of Value
Chapter 91: Franklin Russell, The Hunting Animal
Chapter 92: Ernest Thompson Seton, Lives of the Hunted
Chapter 93: Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, A Woman Tenderfoot
Chapter 94: Paul Shepard, The Tender Carnivore and The Sacred Game
Chapter 95: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Old Way
Chapter 96: John Vaillant, The Tiger
Chapter 97: Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, It’s My Delight
Chapter 98: T. H. White, The Goshawk
Chapter 99: T. H, White, Gone to Ground
Chapter 100: Colin Willock, The Gun Punt Adventure
