Books of Interest
Frankie's Place: A Love Story by Jim SterbaWall Street Journal reporter Jim Sterba has written a whimsical memoir that will tickle the fancy of those who have always dreamed about escaping the real world to the coast of Maine. "Frankie's Place" is a book about his wife's rustic cabin in Maine where he courted the author Frances FitzGerald and then, having won her hand, moved right in with her to live happily ever after.
The Sporting Life by Albert D. Poudrier
An eclectic, yet exceptionally well-told collection of sporting stories published in a vintage style reminiscent of turn-of-the-century books. With leather covers, gold leaf embellishments and artistic illustrations of master engraver Frank Conroy, this unique book will add great value to any collection and delight the reader for years to come.
Limited edition: $65. Trade edition: $35. To order, contact publisher John Taylor of Bonasa Press at jdt@bonasapress.com.
The Wild Ones: A Quest for North America's Forest & Prairie Grouse by John D. TaylorThe Wild Ones is a fresh, well-written and beautifully illustrated look at a group of North America's most popular game birds: the grouse. Enriched by both natural history and personal experiences, this book centers on a quest for understanding the common element -- wildness -- that clearly connects North America's prairie and forest grouse and the wild places they call home.
The Wild Ones links the past, present and future of the birds and the land. This is a place book, a people book, a dog book, a resource book...a book of experiences that travels from the northern Minnesota aspen forests to grape-tangled Appalachian hillsides, to Montana sagebrush flats and the big empty of Dakota prairie skies. This book includes ruffed grouse, blue grouse, and spruce grouse (forest grouse), and sharptailed grouse, sage grouse, and prairie chickens (prairie grouse).
Limited Edition -- Sale price: $65
6"x9" hardbound - 265 pages - Author & artist signatures
16-page color art/photo insert
Trade Edition -- Sale Price: $35
BONASA PRESS
1502 Water Street -- Columbia, PA 17512
Telephone/Fax (717)684-4215
www.bonasapress.com -- jdt@bonasapress.com
Memory Rising: Hatches, Waters & Trout by Charles M. MeckMemory Rising is master hatch-matcher Charles R. Meck's reflection of a half a century's angling. In reminiscences collected from waterse near and far, readers will fish with everyone from angling legends Vince Marinaro and George Harvey to Vice President Dick Cheney. When Meck takes readers through the highs and lows of the West's storied trout waters, into Canada's river-joined lakes, and on a once-in-a-lifetime quest to New Zealand, readers can count on hooking a good story. Meck has fished virtually every trout stream in Pennsylvania, and has extensive knowledge of the mid-Atlantic region, Arizona, and New Mexico. Meck began writing about fly fishing in 1969. The author of a number of fly fishing books, Meck and his wife, Shirley, live in Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania and winter in Mesa, Arizona.
Meck, Charles R., Memory Rising: Hatches, Waters and Trout. Illustrated by Robert Clement Kray, Bonasa Press: Columbia, PA. 2004. ISBN: 0-9725594-3-4. Hardcover Limited Edition signed by author and illustrator: $65.00. ISBN: 0-9725594-2-6 General Market Edition: $35.00.
BONASA PRESS
1502 Water Street -- Columbia, PA 17512
Telephone/Fax (717)684-4215
www.bonasapress.com -- jdt@bonasapress.com
Gunning the Eastern Uplands by John D. TaylorIn Gunning the Eastern Uplands, a cohesive story that weaves together hunting adventure, natural history, biology, and a love of fine guns and dogs, award-winning author John D. Taylor follows Dr. Charles Norris' classic 1946 Eastern Upland Shooting trial to bring readers a new look at gunning pheasants, ruffed grouse, quail, doves, woodcock, and wild turkeys east of the Mississippi River. Taylor is a publisher, columnist, editor, and frequent contributor to Gun Dog, Wing & Shot, Pointing Dog Journal, and other magazines. A passionate grouse hunter, waterfowler, fly angler, and freelance writer, Taylor lives in Columbia, Pennsylvania with two DeCoverly Kennels English Setters (Shana and Evan) and an exceptionally understanding family--his spouse, Nancy, and her children Will and Katy.
Taylor, John D., Gunning the Eastern Uplands. Illustrated by Dennis Burkhart. Bonasa Press: Columbia, PA. 2004. ISBN: 0-9725594-X-X. Hardcover Limited Edition signed by author and illustrator: $65.00. ISBN: 0-9725594-X-X General Market Edition: $35.00.
BONASA PRESS
1502 Water Street -- Columbia, PA 17512
Telephone/Fax (717)684-4215
www.bonasapress.com -- jdt@bonasapress.com