William Elliott's Carolina Sports by Land and Water

Including Incidents of Devil-Fishing, Wild-Cat, Deer, and Bear Hunting, Etc

By:

William Elliott

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Southern Classics

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The wild and woolly adventures of a nineteenth-century sportsman In the first half of the nineteenth century, rice and cotton planter William Elliott hunted bear, deer, and wild-cat in the South Carolina Lowcountry. In the rivers he fished for drum, sheepshead, and bass. he even claimed to be the first person to slay a devil-fish in Port Royal Sound. Elliott was a sportsman's sportsman, and in Carolina Sports by Land and Water, he recorded his most memorable confrontations with nature. Set in an exotic American milieu, these vividly rendered tales resonate with the rush Elliott felt as he stood face to face with two bears that he later killed with a single shot, as he fought a powerful drum fish and eventually landed it in his craft, and as he harpooned a devil-fish and then held the line while the mammoth ray pulled his boat more than twenty-five miles. Elliott's captivating sketches preserve a bounty of natural history and locale wisdom, and just as important, they provide insight into a Southern way of life that would soon end in civil war.

Author Biography:

A MacArthur fellow, Theodore Rosengarten is senior research associate at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies and author of two award-winning books--All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw and Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter. Rosengarten lives in McClellanville, South Carolina.

Release date Australia

June 30th, 2006

Author

William Elliott

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

illustrations

Pages

260

Series

Southern Classics

Dimensions

133x210x17

ISBN-13

9780872499874

Product ID

6287041

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