Author: Charles Edward WhiteheadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Everglades (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Wild Sports in the South; Or, The Camp-fires of the Everglades
Author: Charles Edward WhiteheadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Everglades (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Camp-fires of the Everglades
Author: Charles Edward WhiteheadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Everglades (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Wild Sports in the South; Or, The Camp-fires of the Everglades
Author: Wild Sports in the South
Author: Charles E. WhiteheadPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331444503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Excerpt from Wild Sports in the South: Or, of the Camp-Fires of the Everglades The larger portion of the Sketches contained in this volume were contributions made by the Author to The Spirit of the Times, a few years ago, under the title of Camp-Fire Stories, and as some of them have been floating about in other papers, this statement seems necessary, lest the reader may regard these twice-told tales as lacking in originality. Nothing more is claimed for this volume than that it contains pleasant reminiscences of hunting life and adventure in the peninsula of Florida, and counterparts of tales, some of them remembered, some of them fancied, that frontier hunters tell when assembled at night around their camp-fires. The Author does not ask that each story shall be regarded as having occurred literally as written; but he believes the spirit of the tales, the description of natural scenery, and the fragments of Indian history to be correct, and he has carefully striven not to offend the keen observation and long experience of his hunting comrades at the South whose eyes will scrutinize these pages, by any allusion to natural history which is not exactly true. If the book will recall the Author pleasantly to their minds, or awaken the remembrance of grand old sports and merry camp-fires in the States of the South, its object is attained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Camp-fires of the Everglades, Or, Wild Sports in the South
Author: Charles Edward WhiteheadPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 9780813010892
Category : Everglades (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Wild Sports in the South Or the Camp-Fires of the Everglades
Author: Charles E. WhiteheadPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497868175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1860 Edition.
Bibliographical Contributions
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Library Bulletin
Author: Bulletin
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Early Southern Sports and Sportsmen, 1830-1910
Author: Jacob F. Rivers IIIPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611173981
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Jacob F. Rivers III has collected twenty-two classic hunting tales by twelve southern writers including Davey Crocket, Johnson J. Hooper, and Henry Clay Lewis. These stories spring not only from a genteel literary tradition but also from the tradition of the tall tale or stories of backwoods humor. Antebellum and post-Civil War tales reflect changes in the social and economic composition of the hunting class in the South. Some reveal themes of fear for the future of field sports, and others demonstrate an early conservation ethic among hunters and landowners. Early Southern Sports and Sportsmen brings to new readers a wealth of hunting and fishing lore heretofore hard to find by any but scholars in the field of southern literature. Rivers has gathered a host of well-read and well-heeled sportsmen who relish each and every detail of their encounters with their environment. Sports authors come from every spectrum of southern society, but their common vocabulary and shared enthusiasm bond them together. Rivers corrects unfortunate stereotypes of hunters as indifferent to aspects of nature other than environmental exploitation. Whether humorists or serious advocates, these authors reveal their sense of their place in the wild, and many advocate ecological good citizenship that disdains wanton slaughter and unethical practices. They condemn such acts as beneath the dignity and honor of true sportsmen. The collection includes accounts of hunting many types of game indigenous to the South from 1830 to 1910, from aristocratic foxhunts to yeoman deer drives. The structure is largely chronological, beginning with John James Audubon's essay on the American wild turkey from his Ornithological Biography (1832) and ending with stories from Alexander Hunter's The Huntsman in the South (1908). Whatever their era, the chief characteristics of these sporting accounts are the excitement the authors experience upon suddenly encountering game, the rigors and hardships they endure in its pursuit, their keen powers of observation of the woods and waters through which they travel, and the comedy often found in the strong friendships that frequently mark their adventures. But above all the tales resonate with a reverence for field sports as the means through which humans establish meaningful and lasting relationships with the mysteries and the magic of nature.