This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.

John Rowe's observations on fishing near Boston in the eighteenth century appeared in a rare limited edition of only 150 copies more than eighty years ago. Besides his Boston area fishing, Rowe went on excursions to the Monument River, which is now the Cape Cod Canal. He appears in American history briefly as an owner one of the ships involved in the Boston Tea Party, but his notes on angling before the Revolution are perhaps a more enduring claim to fame.

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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Most U.S. presidents engaged in some sort of outdoor sport, prior to, during, and after their term of office. Without question, George Washington's main outdoor sporting interest was to be astride his favorite mount riding to the hounds in pursuit of Reynard the Fox. This sort of riding came easily to him after spending countless days on horseback surveying, participating in the French and Indian War in western Pennsylvania, the Revolutionary War, and at Mt. Vernon overseeing his plantation, visiting neighbors, and traveling. By all accounts he was a superb horseman. However relatively few sportsman-historians today appear to know that George Washington also hunted and fished below Mt. Vernon on the Potomac River and its tributaries. A fascinating account of George Washington's sporting life from his own journals! --Henry M. Reeves.

Most U.S. presidents engaged in some sort of outdoor sport, prior to, during, and after their term of office. Without question, George Washington's main outdoor sporting interest was to be astride his favorite mount riding to the hounds in pursuit of Reynard the Fox. This sort of riding came easily to him after spending countless days on horseback surveying, participating in the French and Indian War in western Pennsylvania, the Revolutionary War, and at Mt. Vernon overseeing his plantation, visiting neighbors, and traveling. By all accounts he was a superb horseman. However relatively few sportsman-historians today appear to know that George Washington also hunted and fished below Mt. Vernon on the Potomac River and its tributaries. A fascinating account of George Washington's sporting life from his own journals! --Henry M. Reeves.

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Most U.S. presidents engaged in some sort of outdoor sport, prior to, during, and after their term of office. Without question, George Washington's main outdoor sporting interest was to be astride his favorite mount riding to the hounds in pursuit of Reynard the Fox. This sort of riding came easily to him after spending countless days on horseback surveying, participating in the French and Indian War in western Pennsylvania, the Revolutionary War, and at Mt. Vernon overseeing his plantation, visiting neighbors, and traveling. By all accounts he was a superb horseman. However relatively few sportsman-historians today appear to know that George Washington also hunted and fished below Mt. Vernon on the Potomac River and its tributaries. A fascinating account of George Washington's sporting life from his own journals! --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.

Most U.S. presidents engaged in some sort of outdoor sport, prior to, during, and after their term of office. Without question, George Washington's main outdoor sporting interest was to be astride his favorite mount riding to the hounds in pursuit of Reynard the Fox. This sort of riding came easily to him after spending countless days on horseback surveying, participating in the French and Indian War in western Pennsylvania, the Revolutionary War, and at Mt. Vernon overseeing his plantation, visiting neighbors, and traveling. By all accounts he was a superb horseman. However relatively few sportsman-historians today appear to know that George Washington also hunted and fished below Mt. Vernon on the Potomac River and its tributaries. A fascinating account of George Washington's sporting life from his own journals! --Henry M. Reeves.

Dr. John C. Phillips' Wenham Lake Shooting Record and the "Farm Bag, 1897-1925 ranks high among the few North American journals that documented waterfowl hunting effort and success in North America at a specific locality(s) for an extend period of time. The place and time is Wenham Lake, about 23 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts, during the 1897-1925 era. John C. Phillips today is widely remembered as a leading American conservationist. The enormous amount of time, energy, and money Phillips expended behind the scenes in promoting waterfowl knowledge and conservation both nationally and internationally is almost totally undocumented. He was actively associated with the Boone and Crockett Club, the American Committee for International Wildlife Protection, the International Union for the Protection of Wildlife, and other conservation organizations too numerous to mention. Of his varied interests, probably none surpassed that in waterfowl, and their hunting, history, and conservation.--Henry M. Reeves.

Dr. John C. Phillips' Wenham Lake Shooting Record and the "Farm Bag, 1897-1925 ranks high among the few North American journals that documented waterfowl hunting effort and success in North America at a specific locality(s) for an extend period of time. The place and time is Wenham Lake, about 23 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts, during the 1897-1925 era. John C. Phillips today is widely remembered as a leading American conservationist. The enormous amount of time, energy, and money Phillips expended behind the scenes in promoting waterfowl knowledge and conservation both nationally and internationally is almost totally undocumented. He was actively associated with the Boone and Crockett Club, the American Committee for International Wildlife Protection, the International Union for the Protection of Wildlife, and other conservation organizations too numerous to mention. Of his varied interests, probably none surpassed that in waterfowl, and their hunting, history, and conservation.--Henry M. Reeves.

Shooting stands were permanent enclosed structures with connecting walls or embankments constructed along the shores of ponds and lakes of eastern Massachusetts for waterfowl hunting. Such stands were concealed by brush and reeds, and decoys, both live and wooden, were placed before them to attract passing ducks, geese, and other water birds. Stand owners often kept daily records of the species and numbers of birds shot, the participating hunters, weather conditions, and performance of decoys and retrieving dogs. John Phillips was well known and regarded in the Boston area sporting fraternity, so he personally knew or knew of many of the shooting stand owners. This facilitated his obtaining access to these precious records. The shooting stand records he gathered, edited, and published filled what otherwise would have been a significant void in the literature of North American waterfowl hunting. Phillips was closely associated with the Boone and Crockett Club, the American Committee for International Wildlife Protection, the International Union for the Protection of Wildlife, and other conservation organizations too numerous to mention. Of his varied interests, probably none surpassed that in waterfowl, and their hunting, history, and conservation.--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.

Shooting stands were permanent enclosed structures with connecting walls or embankments constructed along the shores of ponds and lakes of eastern Massachusetts for waterfowl hunting. Such stands were concealed by brush and reeds, and decoys, both live and wooden, were placed before them to attract passing ducks, geese, and other water birds. Stand owners often kept daily records of the species and numbers of birds shot, the participating hunters, weather conditions, and performance of decoys and retrieving dogs. John Phillips was well known and regarded in the Boston area sporting fraternity, so he personally knew or knew of many of the shooting stand owners. This facilitated his obtaining access to these precious records. The shooting stand records he gathered, edited, and published filled what otherwise would have been a significant void in the literature of North American waterfowl hunting. Phillips was closely associated with the Boone and Crockett Club, the American Committee for International Wildlife Protection, the International Union for the Protection of Wildlife, and other conservation organizations too numerous to mention. Of his varied interests, probably none surpassed that in waterfowl, and their hunting, history, and conservation.--Henry M. Reeves.

Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!