Ultimate Guide to Raising Farm Animals

Imagine putting together a big breakfast using the eggs straight from your own chickens, or bacon straight from the pig. This is a sort of ideal that many dream of, but few ever get to experience. Now with The Ultimate Guide to Raising Farm Animals, that dream can be turned into a reality, and also […]

Trout Eyes

Fly fishermen everywhere will enjoy these varied, witty, and engaging adventures by one of America’s finest outdoor writers. There is a long section on trout fishing called “Brookies, Browns, and Bows,” and another on the challenges and excitement of saltwater fly fishing, and an exciting group of memoirs about fishing near home and in far-flung […]

Through the Fish’s Eye

There are many questions that fishermen ask themselves. Why do certain lures appeal to certain types of fish? How does the physical make-up of a type of fish affect its hunting strategy? Do fish learn to avoid lures and hooks? In Through the Fish’s Eye, these questions, and much more are answered. A classic book […]

Summer of the Bass

The black bass is not only the most popular American gamefish, fished for by millions, but is also one of the country’s most iconic creatures, embodying many of the traits and virtues we like to think of as typically American. And yet, despite the hundreds of “how-to” books published on bass fishing over the years, […]

Sight Fishing the Flats and Beyond

• Innovative techniques and gear to help you see the fish better• Fishing beaches, rips, flats, tidal ponds, shallow water and how the weather influences sight fishing• Rigging the boat plus the flies and lures to useSight-Fishing the Flats and Beyond offers effective sight-fishing tactics for a variety of species, including striped bass, bluefish, spotted […]

Side Casts

This beautiful, eclectic collection of first-person stories from bamboo rod-making legend Hoagy B. Carmichael explores various important parts of his life and how they tie into the sport of fishing. Growing up in Beverly Hills with a famous jazz musician for a father, young Hoagy wasn’t exactly destined to become a fisherman. But by the […]

Fusion Fly Tying

Thorough and complete how-to guide for fusion fly tying Shares essential techniques with clear instructions Written by Greg Senyo, an expert on tying your own flies  Do you want to learn more efficient and effective methods for fusion fly tying? Are you wondering which types of synthetic fly work best for which fish and where? […]

Fine Shotguns

In Fine Shotguns, expert John M. Taylor offers a global view of shotguns using photographs and descriptions of guns from the United States, Britain, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, and Italy. Here are all types of shotguns: single barrel, double barrel, combination guns, hammer shotguns, paired shotguns, special-use guns, small-bore shotguns, shotgun stocks or shotguns with […]

Complete Book of Striped Bass Fishing

From legendary fisherman and outdoors writer Nick Kara comes a comprehensive look at every aspect of the striped bass. It’s essential reading for beginners and anyone whose spent a lifetime casting for stripers.Striped bass – in fresh and salt water – are one of the world’s greatest gamefish, and The Complete Book of Striped Bass […]

Brook Trout

North America has had a 400-year love affair with the brook trout – Salvelinus fontinalis- its great native trout. In this newly revised and updated volume, Nick Karas offers the only major profile of this most beautiful gamefish. Brook Trout is a thorough look at the history, biology, and angling possibilities of the fish most […]

Where Wars Go to Die

As the world commemorates the hundredth anniversary of World War I, the literary canon of the war has consolidated around the memoirs written in the years after the Armistice by soldier-writers who served in the trenches. Another kind of Great War literature has been almost entirely ignored: the books written and published during the war […]

Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management

Originally published as twenty-four newspaper columns from 1859 to 1861, Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management is many things, but it is first and foremost a guide to managing a household during the nineteenth century.Beeton wrote, “As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so is it with the mistress […]