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Name: A Fall of Woodcock: A Season’s Worth of Tales on Hunting a Most Elusive Little Game Bird
ISBN-13: 9781629146027
ISBN-10: 1629146021
Addition ISBN: 1629149446, 9781629149448
Author(s): Tom Huggler, Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (Open Road)
A hunter travels about the United States and Canada to speak with woodcock hunters, guides and researchers, gathering information on the little game bird. “A fall of woodcock into a covert you have either chosen or to which you have been directed is a magic all its own,” Tom Huggler writes in this book devoted to the woodcock and to those who await the return to their favorite coverts each autumn. This book, with a new introduction by Charley Waterman, casts a similar spell as it chronicles Tom’s travels to New England, the Maritimes, Maine, Louisiana, then back to his beloved Michigan in search of a better understanding of the woodcock—and a better understanding of himself. Just as the migratory flights of the woodcock follow no particular path, A Fall of Woodcock meanders along the main currents and causeways of Huggler’s own life, taking readers with him on an unforgettable, and sometimes unpredictable, journey. Readers will learn about his early hunting influences and will meet his friends (both old and new), his four-legged partners, and various woodcock researchers. Writer H.G. “Tap” Tapply also makes an appearance. And as Huggler’s voyage takes him from place to place, he uncovers many riveting revelations about his own life. “Tom Huggler’s A Fall of Woodcock evokes the joy that sensible men reserve for the flight of feathered fancies.” —Guy de la Valdene, author of The Fragrance of Grass “A Fall of Woodcock depicts a world caught at its best, encompassing everything that we who love autumn’s poignant glories dream about during other seasons: shortening days, knowing dogs, mysterious birds, fine guns, good companions, beauty, and mortality. Add good meals and good conversation, life on the road, and even a little science and conservation, and you have the best book on American woodcock, the philosopher’s game bird, ever written.” —Steve Bodio, author of Querencia and Eagle Dreams