This oral history of foxhunting examines the mentors and influences of fifty people who have dedicated their lives to the sport of horse and hound. Forty-five oral histories are accompanied by beautiful black and white portraits taken by photographer Mary Kalergis.
The first full-length study of one of America's finest shotguns--and the first biography of one of America's most colorful gunmakers, by legendary writer Michael McIntosh.
Doomed from its 1881 conception, the Meadow Brook hunt on Long Island, New York, managed to survive for ninety years in spite of turmoil and new technology. Foxhunting with Meadow Brook tells the story of the people who, for almost a century, rode behind the Meadow Brook hounds.
After Minnesota lawyer Ted Nelson Lundrigan wowed the sporting community with his now classic Hunting the Sun, wingshooting readers eagerly awaited his second book, Grouse and Lesser Gods. Part hunting credo, part philosophy of life, this book lets you traipse with Ted into his coverts with his beloved dogs in pursuit of the roughed grouse.
Acclaimed sporting writer Michael McIntosh calls this classic book, perhaps his most well known, "a celebration of the gun." It captures the gun as a complex, fascinating combination of form and function -- told, as always, in McIntosh's relaxed, conversational style. The first part is about the art of guns and gun making, and the second section ......
More Shotguns & Shooting is a continuation and expansion of the material in volume one. It includes further insights and stories about fine guns and how they're made, coupled with practical tips and advice for shotgunners.
Paul Brown is the definitive book on an artist who is widely regarded as the preeminent American illustrator of equestrian subjects. Based on extensive interviews with Brown's family, friends, and artistic contemporaries, Paul Brown includes a biography of the man and contains a complete listing of all the published works that include Brown's art ......
Tropic Star Lodge is a veritable paradise cut out of the side of a mountain at the edge of the Darien Jungle on the Pacific coast of Panama. Home to some 170 gamefish records, the lodge can only be reached by boat or plane, the nearest road being over 100 miles away. World-renowned gamefish artist Guy Harvey tells the story of Tropic Star in words ......
