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Table of Contents
Part 1: Fishing
Chapter 1: Sheridan Anderson, Curtis Creek Manifesto
Chapter 2: Jim Babb, Fly Fishing Fool
Chapter 3: Dame Juliana Berners, Book of St Albans, etc.
Chapter 4: Burkhard Bilger, Noodling for Flatheads
Chapter 5: Russell Chatham, Dark Waters
Chapter 6: David James Duncan, The River Why
Chapter 7: Negley Farson, Gone Fishing
Chapter 8: John Gierach, Trout Bum
Chapter 9: Arnold Gingrich, Well-tempered Angler
Chapter 10: Roderick Haig-Brown, A River Never Sleeps
Chapter 11: Ted Hughes, Collected Poems
Chapter 12: William Humphrey, My Moby Dick
Chapter 13: Luke Jennings, Blood Knot
Chapter 14: Nick Lyons, Full Creel
Chapter 15: Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It
Chapter 16: Teresa Maggio, Mattanza
Chapter 17: Gavin Maxwell, Harpoon Venture
Chapter 18: John McDonald, Origins of Angling
Chapter 19: Thomas McGuane, 92 In the Shade
Chapter 20: Frank Mele, Small in the Eye of a River
Chapter 21: Harry Middleton, On the Spine of Time
Chapter 22: Seth Norman, Meanderings of a Fly Fisherman
Chapter 23: Patrick O’Brien, The Last Pool
Chapter 24: Datus Proper, What the Trout Said
Chapter 25: M H Salmon, The Catfish as Metaphor
Chapter 26: Paul Schmookler, Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A Natural History
Chapter 27: O’Dell Shepard, Thy Rod and Thy Reel
Chapter 28: G. E. M. Skues, Way of a Trout
Chapter 29: Jeremy Wade, River Monsters
Chapter 30: Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
WINGSHOOTING
Chapter 31: “BB” (Denys Watkins Pitchford): Manka the Sky Gypsy
Chapter 32: William Beebe, Pheasant Jungles
Chapter 33: Vance Bourjaily, Unnatural Enemy
Chapter 34: Tom Davis, The Tattered Autumn Sky
Chapter 35: George Bird Evans, The Upland Shooting Life
Chapter 36: Charles Fergus, A Rough Shooting Dog
Chapter 37: William Harnden Foster, New England Grouse Shooting
Chapter 38: Caroline Gordon, Aleck Maury, Sportsman
Chapter 39: Col. Peter Hawker, Instructions to Young Sportsmen…
Chapter 40: Van Campen Heilner, American Duck Shooting
Chapter 41: “Mr.” Markland, The Art of Shooting Flying
Chapter 42: Timothy Murphy, A Hunter’s Log
Chapter 43: Datus Proper, Pheasants of the Mind
Chapter 44: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek
Chapter 45: Ivan Turgenev, Sportsman’s Notebooks
Chapter 46: Guy de la Valdene, The Fragrance of Grass
Chapter 47: Charley Waterman, Gun Dogs and Bird Guns
GENERAL HUNTING, GUNS, TRAVEL, MIXED, & MISCELLANEOUS
(includes falconry and some odd fishing)
Chapter 48: Roy Chapman Andrews, Across Mongolian Plains
Chapter 49: V. K. Arseniev, Dersu the Trapper
Chapter 50: John Barsness, The Life of the Hunt
Chapter 51: Peter Beard, The End of the Game
Chapter 52: W. D. M. Bell, Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter
Chapter 53: Caroline Blackwood, In the Pink
Chapter 54: Angus Cameron & Judith Jones: LL Bean Game & Fish Cookbook
Chapter 55: Jim Corbett, Maneaters of Kumaon
Chapter 56: Frank & John Craighead, Life With an Indian Prince
Chapter 57: Isaak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), Out of Africa
Chapter 58: William Faulkner, The Big Woods
Chapter 59: Emperor Frederick II, De Arte Venandi cum Avibus
Chapter 60: John Graves, The Last Running
Chapter 61: Dale Guthrie, The Nature of Paleolithic Art
Chapter 62: John Haines, The Stars, The Snows, The Fire
Chapter 63: Frances Hamerstrom, Is She Coming Too?
Chapter 64: Jim Harrison, Just Before Dark
Chapter 65: MacDonald Hastings, The Shotgun
Chapter 66: The Helmericks, We Live in the Arctic
Chapter 67: Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa
Chapter 68: George Leonard Herter, Bull Cook and Authentic Historical recipes and Practices;
Chapter 69: Frank Hibben, Hunting American Lions
Chapter 70: Geoffrey Household, Dance of the Dwarves
Chapter 71: William Humphrey, Home From the Hill
Chapter 72: Steve Hunter, Pale Horse Coming
Chapter 73: Joe Hutto, Illumination in the Flatwoods
Chapter 74: C. J. P. Ionides, A Hunter’s Story
Chapter 75: Robert F. Jones, Blood Sport
Chapter 76: Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac
Chapter 77: Dan Mannix, A Sporting Chance
Chapter 78: Thomas McGuane, An Outside Chance
Chapter 79: Thomas McIntyre, Seasons and Days
Chapter 80: Richard Nelson, The Island Within
Chapter 81: Jose Ortega y Gasset, Meditations on Hunting
Chapter 82: Jack O’Connor, Hunting in the Southwest
Chapter 83: Rebecca O’Connor, Lift
Chapter 84: Brian Plummer, Diary of a Rat Hunting Man
Chapter 85: Saxton Pope, Hunting With the Bow and Arrow
Chapter 86: Mikhail Prishvin, Nature’s Diary
Chapter 87: Steven Rinella, The Scavenger’s Guide to Haut Cuisine
Chapter 88: Teddy Roosevelt, Wilderness Hunter
Chapter 89: John Rowlands, Cache Lake Country
Chapter 99: Robert Ruark, Something of Value
Chapter 91: Franklin Russell, The Hunting Animal
Chapter 92: Ernest Thompson Seton, Lives of the Hunted
Chapter 93: Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, A Woman Tenderfoot
Chapter 94: Paul Shepard, The Tender Carnivore and The Sacred Game
Chapter 95: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Old Way
Chapter 96: John Vaillant, The Tiger
Chapter 97: Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, It’s My Delight
Chapter 98: T. H. White, The Goshawk
Chapter 99: T. H, White, Gone to Ground
Chapter 100: Colin Willock, The Gun Punt Adventure
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Excerpt
Life With an Indian Prince
By John J Craighead and Frank C. Craighead, Jr.
Hancock House
January, 2001
John Craighead and his twin brother Frank, lifelong naturalists, explorers, and conservationists, may be best known for their studies of the grizzly in Yellowstone in the sixties and seventies. But their work started in the thirties when, as teenagers, they studied and photographed birds of prey for theNational Geographic. Their article led to a book contract forHawks in the Hand(1939) and an invitation from an Indian Prince, R.S. Dharmakumarsinjhi ("Bapa") to come and see how falconers in India still carried on a tradition that was hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years old.
They passed into a world that, despite Daimlers and swimming pools, was still medieval. From October 1940 until April of 1941 they traveled, photographed and filmed everything from falconry and coursing with trained cheetahs to a royal wedding. They never dreamed that, soon after their return, the flames of World War II and the passions of Indian Independence would sweep away the entire society that they had glimpsed. The brothers published a short article, "Life With an Indian Prince," in theNationalGeographic, and went off to train naval pilots for survival in the South Seas.
Although they made a film forNational Geographic, it was never released. About fifty years later, Frank Craighead delivered a detailed day-to-day diary of the trip, together with hundreds of color slides, to S. Kent Carnie of the Archives of Falconry in Boise, Idaho. Carnie realized that, rather than an obscure text of interest only to falconers and bird of prey specialists, he had his hands on something like a time machine, an intimate glimpse into the high culture of the Raj. The Archives have made every effort to produce a book worthy of the material, and have succeeded magnificently.Lifeis a lavish and oversized volume of 277 pages printed on fine paper and with color photographs on virtually every page and backed up by a detailed glossary.
The Craigheads' diaries begin at the trip's start in Pennsylvania . The brothers drive across the country (stopping to climb in the Tetons) then embark from San Francisco on thePresident Cleveland. During the crossing they paint vivid, innocent pictures of prewar South Seas travel, and photograph such things as a Hong Kong still dominated by forested hills, early reminders to the present-day reader of how much the world has changed.
But the bulk of the book details a sporting season in western India. The Craigheads participate in trapping and training a princely team of falcons and goshawks (Bapa alone has a team of 33 birds, all attended by professional falconers) using methods unchanged since the dawn of falconry. They ride on bullock carts with trained cheetahs to pursue blackbuck antelope. They cross India to attend a royal wedding complete with a retinue of costumed elephants and a ritual lion hunt in the formally managed Gir forest. Finally, they take their team of trained birds out to hunt hare and partridge, heron and plover, even such medieval quarry as ibis and kite.
Readers should realize that, despite all the hunting, British India's wildlife was intensely managed and conserved. The Gir forest lions survive today because they were preserved for the Maharajas' hunts. Post-Independence chaos and unrestrained population growth have reduced the wildlife of Bhavnagar, and all India, to a ghostly remnant of what existed in 1940. Bapa devoted the rest of his life to conservation and the preservation of endangered species, as did the Craigheads.
But this book is a grand testimony to a time when the problems of the late Twentieth Century were still on the horizon. The lives of the upper classes were the same as they had been for centuries, except for a few modern conveniences, and it was possible to believe that this life could go on indefinitely. This bright window into the past should be of interest to all falconers and naturalists, but also to historians, anthropologists, and anyone curious about lost customs and cultures.
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