Kismet
UPH Guru
Just read a couple of good and very good books with dogs featured.
The best, A ROUGH SHOOTING DOG, by Charles Fergus, is the story of the first year hunting with a field springer spaniel. Fergus is a talented and artful writer of our language, and the book is not a springer owner's lavish praise of his dog, but rather a joy of the experience of hunting which all bird dog owners can appreciate. One of those sit by the fire with a sipping drink books.
One line (which I can't find now...of course) goes something like:
"For a hunter, Fall is the island towards which we swim all year long."
exactly.
The other, HOME WATERS, is the story of a man and his golden traveling the fly-fishing waters out west after he learns of the illness his dog. Not a tear-jerker, and not all that fly-fisherman minutiae laden prose, but the story of small events of man wandering around with his dog. Really, NOT maudlin, but "companionable" reading instead.
Do yourself a treat, these books, especially the first, belong on all bird-hunters' book shelf.
Happy Holidays.
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The best, A ROUGH SHOOTING DOG, by Charles Fergus, is the story of the first year hunting with a field springer spaniel. Fergus is a talented and artful writer of our language, and the book is not a springer owner's lavish praise of his dog, but rather a joy of the experience of hunting which all bird dog owners can appreciate. One of those sit by the fire with a sipping drink books.
One line (which I can't find now...of course) goes something like:
"For a hunter, Fall is the island towards which we swim all year long."
exactly.
The other, HOME WATERS, is the story of a man and his golden traveling the fly-fishing waters out west after he learns of the illness his dog. Not a tear-jerker, and not all that fly-fisherman minutiae laden prose, but the story of small events of man wandering around with his dog. Really, NOT maudlin, but "companionable" reading instead.
Do yourself a treat, these books, especially the first, belong on all bird-hunters' book shelf.
Happy Holidays.
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