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To have been able, during a matter of nearly thirty years, to follow the game trails of the great plantation region of the delta of the Santee-this has been my privilege. I have seen my homeland undergo great transformations during those years: the plantations have for the most part become waste tracts; many of the old families have died out; Nature has recaptured in her inimitable way what had been, for a few years, wrested from her. The game has...
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Thirty-five stirring, contemplative stories of deer hunting from a winner of the John Burroughs Medal.
Archibald Rutledge-renowned outdoor writer, poet laureate, and authority on whitetails-lived a rich life at Hampton Plantation in South Carolina, and had a mystical attachment to deer that found fulfillment in hunting and writing. No American sporting writer has been more persuasive in capturing the myriad, and often elusive, meanings of the hunt.
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Archibald Rutledge ranks as one of America's best-loved outdoor writers. Throughout his long, productive career he lived close to the land and had a rare knack for capturing on paper the joys of hunting, the beauty of the outdoors, and the camaraderie which lies at the heart of the sporting experience. Rutledge was a staunch son of the Southern soil, and he wrote with effective feeling of the virtues that region has always prized-honor, love of one's...
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Archibald Rutledge's suspenseful story "The Egret's Plumes" is a cautionary tale exalting the virtues of good sportsmanship, conservation of the natural world, and the universality of parental instincts. Fleeing the relentless plume hunters of their native Florida, a pair of exquisite snowy egrets make a new home-and then a new family-in the South Carolina lowcountry swamps of Blake's Reserve. When the male egret is killed by a poacher, the female...