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A Sportsman's Scrapbook is a collection of assorted hunting
experiences from his childhood and early years. Phillips explains
in a self-effacing manner, "The ... drawer in my desk has been
bulging for some years with a variety of compositions which I have
not the heart to burn nor the gall to proliferate." p. 3. This is
the first of three popularly written books about his and other's
shooting stories. The other two are Classics of the American
Shooting Field... (1930) and A Sportsman's Second Scrapbook (1933)
The assorted recollections are organized into twelve chapters as
follows: early guns and hunting;. various "shacks," camps, resorts,
and shooting stands used over the years; grouse hunting guns,
clothing, dogs; hunting chamois in the French Alps; hunting ducks
at night; trout fishing on small Cape Cod streams; more trout
fishing; hunting "reindeer" in Greenland; moose hunting; Currituck,
North Carolina, waterfowl hunting; and bighorn sheep hunting in
British Columbia.Several of these trips afield were unsuccessful
but to Phillips that was not of much concern. Rather, he found
great satisfaction in simply being afield in nature's realm.
Sketches by A. Lassell Ripley enhance the book. Oddly, in his early
years, Phillips freely admits using some practices now illegal,
such as hunting ducks at night and shooting over live waterfowl
decoys and bait. At one point he goes so far as to write, "I fear
we were a long way, those days, from any developed consciousness of
sporting ethics, and our chief pride was to see how many laws we
could break at one and the same moment."--Henry M. Reeves.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
A Sportsman's Scrapbook is a collection of assorted hunting
experiences from his childhood and early years. Phillips explains
in a self-effacing manner, "The ... drawer in my desk has been
bulging for some years with a variety of compositions which I have
not the heart to burn nor the gall to proliferate." p. 3. This is
the first of three popularly written books about his and other's
shooting stories. The other two are Classics of the American
Shooting Field... (1930) and A Sportsman's Second Scrapbook (1933)
The assorted recollections are organized into twelve chapters as
follows: early guns and hunting;. various "shacks," camps, resorts,
and shooting stands used over the years; grouse hunting guns,
clothing, dogs; hunting chamois in the French Alps; hunting ducks
at night; trout fishing on small Cape Cod streams; more trout
fishing; hunting "reindeer" in Greenland; moose hunting; Currituck,
North Carolina, waterfowl hunting; and bighorn sheep hunting in
British Columbia.Several of these trips afield were unsuccessful
but to Phillips that was not of much concern. Rather, he found
great satisfaction in simply being afield in nature's realm.
Sketches by A. Lassell Ripley enhance the book. Oddly, in his early
years, Phillips freely admits using some practices now illegal,
such as hunting ducks at night and shooting over live waterfowl
decoys and bait. At one point he goes so far as to write, "I fear
we were a long way, those days, from any developed consciousness of
sporting ethics, and our chief pride was to see how many laws we
could break at one and the same moment."--Henry M. Reeves.
A Sportsman's Scrapbook is a collection of assorted hunting
experiences from his childhood and early years. Phillips explains
in a self-effacing manner, "The ... drawer in my desk has been
bulging for some years with a variety of compositions which I have
not the heart to burn nor the gall to proliferate." p. 3. This is
the first of three popularly written books about his and other's
shooting stories. The other two are Classics of the American
Shooting Field... (1930) and A Sportsman's Second Scrapbook (1933)
The assorted recollections are organized into twelve chapters as
follows: early guns and hunting;. various "shacks," camps, resorts,
and shooting stands used over the years; grouse hunting guns,
clothing, dogs; hunting chamois in the French Alps; hunting ducks
at night; trout fishing on small Cape Cod streams; more trout
fishing; hunting "reindeer" in Greenland; moose hunting; Currituck,
North Carolina, waterfowl hunting; and bighorn sheep hunting in
British Columbia.Several of these trips afield were unsuccessful
but to Phillips that was not of much concern. Rather, he found
great satisfaction in simply being afield in nature's realm.
Sketches by A. Lassell Ripley enhance the book. Oddly, in his early
years, Phillips freely admits using some practices now illegal,
such as hunting ducks at night and shooting over live waterfowl
decoys and bait. At one point he goes so far as to write, "I fear
we were a long way, those days, from any developed consciousness of
sporting ethics, and our chief pride was to see how many laws we
could break at one and the same moment."--Henry M. Reeves.
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