I love outdoor books too. Favorites include Archibald Rutledge, Corey Ford, William Faulkner's the Bear, Hemingway, Jack London and Corey Ford. Havilah Babcock is a must for quail hunters. Really, there are too many to list.

Sporting Classics has a new book out called The Greatest Quail Hunting Book ever which I am about to order. For decades I was a member of Amwell Press through The National Sporting Fraternity and have amassed a good library.

For a long time Africa has held a special place for me and I just finished a collection of stories assembled once again by Sporting Classics. Santa brought me Incidents from an Elephant Hunters Diary by W.D.M. Bell and a bottle of Jack Daniels Single Barrel. I think this weekend it's time to put 400 grain solids in the double rifle (figuratively speaking) a few cubes of frozen water in a glass and the Single Barrel and go Elephant hunting.

Agree except for Rutledge; for some reason I just can't like his work. I was all excited the first time I picked up a few of his books, but they just left me cold. It's gotta be me, 'cause I like others from the era...for me reading him is like reading Emily Dickinson (or would be, if I ever read Emily Dickinson :)).

While I'll always have a soft spot for Buckingham's Play House, two recent reads, both non-fiction, I found better than average: The Devils Teeth by Susan Casey, about the Farallon Islands and Great Whites and the toughening up of a city girl, and Dead Wake by Erik Larson about the last crossing of the Lusitania and a pretty good view of life in 1915. Enjoy.

I really love Sheldon's Tranquility books.My favorite story of all time is the story of the funeral for the major who came to live in their village after the civil war.Sheldon talks about how important he was to the people there,particularly the war veterans.In the final paragraph he has the local band play the major's favorite song one last time for him.It was "Dixie".Makes you kinda misty eyed.

Got Amazoned pretty good this Xmas. Marcy gave me "Hemingway on Hunting" and my brother, Hank, gave me the Kennel Club book "Black and Tan Coonhound" (I used to have good one, old Rattler).

The name of that story is "Not Without Honor." One of my favorites too.

Here.... http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...ighlight=honor






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This book, just finished last night, is only for people who love old stories of Fly-in Lodges, and Bush flying in Northern Maine.
Jake Morrell worked for Max Folsom, perhaps the most famous Maine Float pilot, then he and his wife started "Hardscrabble Lodge"; the name of the book.
Turns out, I drive by the guy's retirement home every trip to Greenville.
The book is published by Maine Authors Publishing and Cooperative
www.maineauthorspublishing.com
I love books that 'sound' like stories from around the woodstove, favorite drink in hand.

If you love Down East humor read "Tall Tales from the Tall Pines" by Christian Potholm. Its a collection of Maine hunting & fishing stories as told by a Maine Guide. The characters in this book are absolutely hilarious.

That one's on the nightstand right now.