{"title":"Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"mike-altizer-nineteen-years-to-sunrise","title":"Nineteen Years to Sunrise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardcover, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e330\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e Pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNineteen Years to Sunrise\u003c\/em\u003e is an intimate and insightful collection of stories from a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003elifetime of hunting and fishing across North America—from the forests and rivers of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAlaska and the great Canadian Shield, to the American West and the Florida Keys.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAnd, as you will read in these pages, quite nearly from beyond.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eFrom the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the soaring southern Rockies. From the wild rivers of Alaska to the high deserts of the American Southwest, to the longleaf pines, Spanish moss and golden sedge of the deep South, \u003cem\u003eNineteen Years to Sunrise\u003c\/em\u003e invites you to share some of the most sublime hunting and fishing experiences in North America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the Author's Into:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"You're in no hurry to finish (writing) the book and are instead content to let it proceed at its own pace and with its own rhythms. For the creative process is too delightful and blissfully close for you to want it to end, and the only concern you have is that you might die prematurely and leave it unfinished and no one will know.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e...And that is precisely what almost happened. Because less than a week after the author and his daughter returned from their latest adventure along the Georgia coast hunting redfish, he suffered a sudden heart attack that nearly took him. And thought this book was for all intents and purposes finished, that single event re-shaped it in ways even the writer himself could never have imaged.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\"Mike Altizer is one of those rare writers who can scrape away the surface grime encapsulating all that is human and burrow to the heart of things. Better yet, he is a writer who has the ability to look inside himself and relate his thoughts and feelings in such a way that it strikes a cord within the reader.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eHe is above all, a student of creation. Of \u003cem\u003eeverything,\u003c\/em\u003e not just the outdoors and the sporting life, but of the human conditions and the relationship between humans and the rest of the universe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe inevitable result is a rare intimacy between the writer and his audience—and a body of work that enriches both. I know he's good because of the number of times I've thought, \u003cem\u003e\"Damn, I wish I had written that!\"\u003c\/em\u003e when reading one of his manuscripts. It happened several times while I was reading the first draft of this book, and I have no doubt that it will happen again.\" -Robert Matthews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e---\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eReading a Mike Altizer story is like sitting by an evening campfire in a hunting camp. His gifts are not only those of a fine storyteller, but a conjurer of images, using words like artists' brushes to color the landscapes of his, and our, memories. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eTurn to any page, read a passage and you'll discover that you've become part of his landscape, the passages beckoning you to the next mountaintop, the valleys beyond, and the shorelines of our own personal memories.\" -Jim Carmichel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sporting Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":211763281,"sku":"","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0153\/0763\/products\/NineteenYears.jpg?v=1527709663"},{"product_id":"a-roaring-in-the-blood","title":"A Roaring in the Blood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eTrade Edition: 193\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e Pages, \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e6.25\" x 9.25\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\",\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHardcover with dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHard-hitting staff writer for \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/em\u003e; critically acclaimed author of such novels as the cult classic \u003cem\u003eBlood Sport\u003c\/em\u003e and the Western epic \u003cem\u003eTie My Bones To Her Back\u003c\/em\u003e; essayist, adventurer and sportsman of truly Hemingwayesque proportions . . . \u003cstrong\u003eRobert F. Jones was all these things and many more.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThree years in the making, \u003cem\u003eA Roaring in the Blood: Remembering Robert F. Jones\u003c\/em\u003e paints a frank, funny, richly textured portrait of this lion of American letters, as seen through the eyes of his friends and as revealed through his own hard-muscled prose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith essays from the likes of Craig Nova, Dan Gerber, Thomas McIntyre, Terry McDonell, Geoffrey Norman, John Holt, and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx (who originally conceived this project), photographs by the legendary Bill Eppridge, and a generous selection of Jones’ finest work in both the fiction and non-fiction genres (including an excerpt from his notorious, impossible-to-find Africa novel \u003cem\u003eThe Diamond Bogo\u003c\/em\u003e), the Bob Jones who emerges from these pages is at once larger-than-life and all too human.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis was a man who caught a world record Nile perch and ate it . . . a man whose prodigious snoring made him a pariah in any camp (and once nearly got him killed) . . . a man who was crazily and unashamedly in love with his dogs . . . a man who was as happy stalking tiny, jewel-like brook trout in the tumbling creeks near his Vermont home as he was stalking glowering Cape buffalo in the thorny heat of the African bush. His knowledge was encyclopedic, his imagination infinite, his sense of humor boundless. Bob Jones, you learn, was a writer’s writer, a man’s man and a fiercely loyal friend – if not someone whose friendship was always easy. In Jones’ company, you were never far from harm’s way.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd whether you’re among his legions of fans or someone coming to his work for the first time, \u003cem\u003eA Roaring in the Blood\u003c\/em\u003e, like running the rapids of a brawling North Country river, is a wild – but deeply rewarding – ride. It confirms Jones’ stature as a writer not only of uncommon gifts, but of enduring ones.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sporting Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":211770157,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0153\/0763\/files\/20240712_100213.jpg?v=1720795539"},{"product_id":"the-literature-of-turkey-hunting-an-annotated-bibliography","title":"The Literature of Turkey Hunting: An Annotated Bibliography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardcover with Slipcase.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e175 Gilded Pages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSize  9.5\" x 6.5\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Literature of Turkey Hunting\u003c\/em\u003e contains 580 annotated entries, current prices are given for books dealing exclusively with turkey hunting, there is extensive annotation throughout, and details are provided on matters such as how to judge a book's condition, building a collection, and what the future likely holds in the realm of books on the sport. Noted sporting scribe Jim Spencer contributed the Foreword to the book, and a complete chapter is devoted to Tom Kelly, the recognized literary icon of turkey hunting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduced in a limited, numbered, and signed edition of 750 copies, the book has all the hallmarks of a top-drawer collectible. It features Smythe-sewn binding, classy Skivertex material for both the book cover and the slipcase, a ribbon marker, all edges gilt, a gilt engraving of a turkey on the front cover and gold imprinting on the spine, 80-pound stock, a selection of color photographs, and other attributes of a fine book. The book's cover is in a striking blue, nicely offset by the maroon color of the slipcase and ribbon marker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eThe book contains 18 pages of introductory material, 171 pages of text, and a separate section of color photographs. A critical reference source, including prices, for anyone interested in books, pamphlets, brochures and published ephemera on turkey hunting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jim Casada - Buy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":211869471,"sku":"","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0153\/0763\/products\/20210623_095135_resized.jpg?v=1624459296"},{"product_id":"a-roaring-in-the-blood-deluxe","title":"A Roaring in the Blood - Deluxe","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eDeluxe Edition: 193\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e Pages, \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e6.25\" x 9.25\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\",\u003c\/span\u003e gold-embossed, leather-bound.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHard-hitting staff writer for \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/em\u003e; critically acclaimed author of such novels as the cult classic \u003cem\u003eBlood Sport\u003c\/em\u003e and the Western epic \u003cem\u003eTie My Bones To Her Back\u003c\/em\u003e; essayist, adventurer and sportsman of truly Hemingwayesque proportions . . . \u003cstrong\u003eRobert F. Jones was all these things and many more.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThree years in the making, \u003cem\u003eA Roaring in the Blood: Remembering Robert F. Jones\u003c\/em\u003e paints a frank, funny, richly textured portrait of this lion of American letters, as seen through the eyes of his friends and as revealed through his own hard-muscled prose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith essays from the likes of Craig Nova, Dan Gerber, Thomas McIntyre, Terry McDonell, Geoffrey Norman, John Holt, and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx (who originally conceived this project), photographs by the legendary Bill Eppridge, and a generous selection of Jones’ finest work in both the fiction and non-fiction genres (including an excerpt from his notorious, impossible-to-find Africa novel \u003cem\u003eThe Diamond Bogo\u003c\/em\u003e), the Bob Jones who emerges from these pages is at once larger-than-life and all too human.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis was a man who caught a world record Nile perch and ate it . . . a man whose prodigious snoring made him a pariah in any camp (and once nearly got him killed) . . . a man who was crazily and unashamedly in love with his dogs . . . a man who was as happy stalking tiny, jewel-like brook trout in the tumbling creeks near his Vermont home as he was stalking glowering Cape buffalo in the thorny heat of the African bush. His knowledge was encyclopedic, his imagination infinite, his sense of humor boundless. Bob Jones, you learn, was a writer’s writer, a man’s man and a fiercely loyal friend – if not someone whose friendship was always easy. In Jones’ company, you were never far from harm’s way.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd whether you’re among his legions of fans or someone coming to his work for the first time, \u003cem\u003eA Roaring in the Blood\u003c\/em\u003e, like running the rapids of a brawling North Country river, is a wild – but deeply rewarding – ride. It confirms Jones’ stature as a writer not only of uncommon gifts, but of enduring ones.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sporting Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":226647304,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0153\/0763\/products\/Roaring_in_the_BloodDeluxe.jpg?v=1527709599"},{"product_id":"remembering-the-greats-profiles-of-turkey-huntings-old-masters","title":"Remembering the Greats: Profiles of Turkey Hunting's Old Masters","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRemembering the Greats\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a 317-page hardbound book, Jim Casada brings his training as an historian, his decades of studying the grand masters of the sport, his avid collecting of the literature, and his personal hunting experiences to bear in a detailed examination of the careers of 27 icons from turkey hunting's past. Collectively they epitomize the essence of what old timers sometimes refer to as true \"turkey men.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach vignette focuses on the person's contributions to the world of turkey hunting in capacities such as callmaking, authors of articles and books, avid hunters, seminar speakers, television personalities, biologists, conservationists, and more. Two common threads typify every man profiled: their consuming love of the wild turkey and the fact that they were fascinating characters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCoverage includes well-known individuals—Tom Turpin, Henry Edwards Davis, Neil Cost, Dave Harbour, Earl Mickel, M. L. Lynch, Ben Rodgers Lee, and Dick Kirby—along with names which might not be quite as familiar to today's hunters such as Parker Whedon, Doug Camp, Larry Hearn, Leon Johenning, C. L. Jordan, and Simon Everitt. Others profiled include E. A. McIlhenny, Frank Hanenkrat, Henry Bridges, Roger Latham, Gene Nunnery, Tom Gaskins, Charlie Elliott, Dwain Bland, Wayne Bailey, Jack Dudley, Frank Piper, and Kenny Morgan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough these richly detailed and lovingly crafted profiles, accompanied by ample photographic support and extensive source notes, the reader can take a delightful trip down darkening avenues into a past which is at once fascinating and enlightening.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirmly committed to the idea that turkey hunting’s past serves as a looking glass into the sport’s future, Jim Casada has been an avid student of its lure and lore since that magic morning, decades ago, when he stood mesmerized in a moment of bittersweetness while admiring his first gobbler. America's greatest game bird immediately laid a firm hold on a corner of his sporting soul. Since that glad occasion, he has been on an unending quest for information pertaining to turkey hunting's rich and varied past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sporting Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":265934206,"sku":"","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0153\/0763\/products\/turkey_masters_cover_image.jpg?v=1527709670"},{"product_id":"nineteen-years-to-sunrise-deluxe-edition","title":"Nineteen Years to Sunrise - Deluxe Edition","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eLeather-bound, 330\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e pages.\u003cbr\u003eLimited Edition of 300 copies.\u003cbr\u003eSigned \u0026amp; numbered by the author.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNineteen Years to Sunrise\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an intimate and insightful collection of stories from a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003elifetime of hunting and fishing across North America—from the forests and rivers of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAlaska and the great Canadian Shield, to the American West and the Florida Keys.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAnd, as you will read in these pages, quite nearly from beyond.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eFrom the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the soaring southern Rockies. From the wild rivers of Alaska to the high deserts of the American Southwest, to the longleaf pines, Spanish moss and golden sedge of the deep South,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNineteen Years to Sunrise\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003einvites you to share some of the most sublime hunting and fishing experiences in North America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the Author's Into:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"You're in no hurry to finish (writing) the book and are instead content to let it proceed at its own pace and with its own rhythms. For the creative process is too delightful and blissfully close for you to want it to end, and the only concern you have is that you might die prematurely and leave it unfinished and no one will know.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e...And that is precisely what almost happened. Because less than a week after the author and his daughter returned from their latest adventure along the Georgia coast hunting redfish, he suffered a sudden heart attack that nearly took him. And thought this book was for all intents and purposes finished, that single event re-shaped it in ways even the writer himself could never have imaged.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\"Mike Altizer is one of those rare writers who can scrape away the surface grime encapsulating all that is human and burrow to the heart of things. 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