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One of the first angling books to illustrate the materials required for fly patterns using colour photographs, this is an invaluable book giving detailed instruction on tying traditional North Country wet flies. The scarce first edition of this important book was privately published by the authors in 1916. This high quality new paperback edition, published by Coch-y-Bonddu Books, Machynlleth, has a new introduction by Oliver Edwards. A leather-bound hardback edition of this title was produced simultaneously by The Flyfisher's Classic Library.
From Back Cover: This is a newspaperman's history of the Upper Peninsula. Intrigued by the place name Michigamme, Martin and his wife stopped there on their wedding trip in 1940 and became enchanted with the Upper Peninsula. Out of that attraction came more visits, a string of interviews and a series of tales told by miners, loggers, hunters and trappers. Originally published in 1944, it is a collection of nineteen lively stories told in convenient chunks for quick reading.-Detroit Free Press. The passage of time provides a better test of the quality of a book than litmus paper does of the acidity of a solution. This book was originally written in 1944 by one of our most powerful documentary authors. [Call it North Country] reads like a novel. If you're a history buff, it reads better than a novel. This book could not be written today. The witnesses to the development of upper Michigan would be missing and twice or thrice told tales would lose much detail and would not have the ring of truth which authenticates history.-Inland Seas.
Rhyming verse and illustrations describe the arrival of spring in the north. Includes section with facts about animal behavior.
In 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent, six-week-long U.S.-Dakota War. Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides, and the war ended with the execution of thirty-eight Dakotas on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota--the largest mass execution in American history. The following April, after suffering a long internment at Fort Snelling, the Dakota and Winnebago peoples were forcefully removed to South Dakota, precipitating the near destruction of the area's native communities while simultaneously laying the foundation for what we know and recognize to...
As the people inside a log cabin go to sleep, many animals are awake outside in this lyrical story with dramatic and realistic moonlit landscapes. Reach for this book for the beauty of its snowy landscapes.--School Library Journal. An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists and NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children. Full color.
When an Adirondack town is suddenly faced with the murder of two women, the task of tracking down the killer falls to Sheriff Alex Banks and Lt. Harry Donahue. Driven by public outcry, local politicians are bent on arresting Chuck Fowler, whose relationships with both victims ended abruptly when the women found themselves subjected to his violent temper. Lt. Donahue believes Fowler is guilty; Sheriff Banks disagrees. He knows he must stop the killer before he strikes again.
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Mike Harding, broadcaster, comedian, experienced fly fisherman, and author of a monthly column in Fly Fishing & Fly Tying magazine, has written a guide to tying one of the most well-loved and beguiling traditions of fly: the Northern Spider. These designs of fly, conceived in the north of England around Bolton Abbey in the Yorksire Dales near Skipton, are renowned for being both simple to tie and excellent for catching fish. They are characterized by using brightly colored silk threads, and the feathers of birds like snipe, woodcock, and pheasant. Mike Harding covers some 50 variants of fly, as well as the techniques of tying and the history of the North Country tradition. The book features his own superb close-focus photography, and is laid out in the same style as The Fly-Tying Bible.