A Sportsman s Library: The 100 Books that Every Hunter and Fisherman Should Own will consist of 100 short reviews (for lack of a better word), each one from 300 to 1500 words, and illustrated with either the cover of the book or a photo of the book s author. The list will include all the beloved classics, but will add plenty of lesser-known titles as well. It will range in time from Izaak Walton s 17th century to 21st century tiger poachers in eastern Siberia, and geographically from the Catskills to the Keys, from England s chalk streams to Jim Corbett s India. It will take pleasure in those books that explain the intricate beauty of the classic salmon fly as well the astonishing craftsmanship of a Best London double, the science of the hunt as well as the hunt s depiction in art."

Table of Contents Part 1: Fishing Chapter 1: Sheridan Anderson, Curtis Creek ManifestoChapter 2: Jim Babb, Fly Fishing FoolChapter 3: Dame Juliana Berners, Book of St Albans, etc. Chapter 4: Burkhard Bilger, Noodling for FlatheadsChapter 5: Russell Chatham, Dark WatersChapter 6: David James Duncan, The River WhyChapter 7: Negley Farson, Gone FishingChapter 8: John Gierach, Trout BumChapter 9: Arnold Gingrich, Well-tempered AnglerChapter 10: Roderick Haig-Brown, A River Never SleepsChapter 11: Ted Hughes, Collected PoemsChapter 12: William Humphrey, My Moby DickChapter 13: Luke Jennings, Blood KnotChapter 14: Nick Lyons, Full CreelChapter 15: Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through ItChapter 16: Teresa Maggio, MattanzaChapter 17: Gavin Maxwell, Harpoon VentureChapter 18: John McDonald, Origins of AnglingChapter 19: Thomas McGuane, 92 In the ShadeChapter 20: Frank Mele, Small in the Eye of a RiverChapter 21: Harry Middleton, On the Spine of TimeChapter 22: Seth Norman, Meanderings of a Fly FishermanChapter 23: Patrick O'Brien, The Last PoolChapter 24: Datus Proper, What the Trout SaidChapter 25: M H Salmon, The Catfish as MetaphorChapter 26: Paul Schmookler, Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A Natural History Chapter 27: O'Dell Shepard, Thy Rod and Thy ReelChapter 28: G. E. M. Skues, Way of a TroutChapter 29: Jeremy Wade, River MonstersChapter 30: Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler WINGSHOOTING Chapter 31: "BB" (Denys Watkins Pitchford): Manka the Sky GypsyChapter 32: William Beebe, Pheasant JunglesChapter 33: Vance Bourjaily, Unnatural EnemyChapter 34: Tom Davis, The Tattered Autumn SkyChapter 35: George Bird Evans, The Upland Shooting LifeChapter 36: Charles Fergus, A Rough Shooting DogChapter 37: William Harnden Foster, New England Grouse ShootingChapter 38: Caroline Gordon, Aleck Maury, SportsmanChapter 39: Col. Peter Hawker, Instructions to Young Sportsmen¿Chapter 40: Van Campen Heilner, American Duck ShootingChapter 41: "Mr." Markland, The Art of Shooting Flying Chapter 42: Timothy Murphy, A Hunter's LogChapter 43: Datus Proper, Pheasants of the MindChapter 44: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross CreekChapter 45: Ivan Turgenev, Sportsman's NotebooksChapter 46: Guy de la Valdene, The Fragrance of GrassChapter 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 PlainsChapter 49: V. K. Arseniev, Dersu the TrapperChapter 50: John Barsness, The Life of the HuntChapter 51: Peter Beard, The End of the GameChapter 52: W. D. M. Bell, Wanderings of an Elephant HunterChapter 53: Caroline Blackwood, In the PinkChapter 54: Angus Cameron & Judith Jones: LL Bean Game & Fish CookbookChapter 55: Jim Corbett, Maneaters of KumaonChapter 56: Frank & John Craighead, Life With an Indian PrinceChapter 57: Isaak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), Out of AfricaChapter 58: William Faulkner, The Big WoodsChapter 59: Emperor Frederick II, De Arte Venandi cum AvibusChapter 60: John Graves, The Last RunningChapter 61: Dale Guthrie, The Nature of Paleolithic ArtChapter 62: John Haines, The Stars, The Snows, The FireChapter 63: Frances Hamerstrom, Is She Coming Too?Chapter 64: Jim Harrison, Just Before DarkChapter 65: MacDonald Hastings, The ShotgunChapter 66: The Helmericks, We Live in the ArcticChapter 67: Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of AfricaChapter 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 DwarvesChapter 71: William Humphrey, Home From the HillChapter 72: Steve Hunter, Pale Horse ComingChapter 73: Joe Hutto, Illumination in the FlatwoodsChapter 74: C. J. P. Ionides, A Hunter's StoryChapter 75: Robert F. Jones, Blood SportChapter 76: Aldo Leopold, Sand County AlmanacChapter 77: Dan Mannix, A Sporting ChanceChapter 78: Thomas McGuane, An Outside ChanceChapter 79: Thomas McIntyre, Seasons and DaysChapter 80: Richard Nelson, The Island Within Chapter 81: Jose Ortega y Gasset, Meditations on HuntingChapter 82: Jack O'Connor, Hunting in the SouthwestChapter 83: Rebecca O'Connor, LiftChapter 84: Brian Plummer, Diary of a Rat Hunting ManChapter 85: Saxton Pope, Hunting With the Bow and ArrowChapter 86: Mikhail Prishvin, Nature's DiaryChapter 87: Steven Rinella, The Scavenger's Guide to Haut CuisineChapter 88: Teddy Roosevelt, Wilderness Hunter Chapter 89: John Rowlands, Cache Lake CountryChapter 99: Robert Ruark, Something of ValueChapter 91: Franklin Russell, The Hunting AnimalChapter 92: Ernest Thompson Seton, Lives of the HuntedChapter 93: Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, A Woman TenderfootChapter 94: Paul Shepard, The Tender Carnivore and The Sacred GameChapter 95: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Old WayChapter 96: John Vaillant, The TigerChapter 97: Brian Vesey-FitzGerald, It's My DelightChapter 98: T. H. White, The GoshawkChapter 99: T. H, White, Gone to GroundChapter 100: Colin Willock, The Gun Punt Adventure