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The American Wild Turkey (A Samworth Book on Hunting)

The American Wild Turkey (A Samworth Book on Hunting)

Henry E. Davis
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The American Wild Turkey by Henry E. Davis is one of the two most important books written about the king of American game birds, the other being The Wild Turkey in Virginia by H. S. Mosby and C. O. Handley. Messrs. Mosby and Handley are professional scientists and their book, a model of its kind, is an invaluable scientific treatise. Henry Davis is an able and distinguished lawyer whose favorite recreation, ever since his boyhood days on the family plantation in the South Carolina Low Country, has been the pursuit and study of the wild turkey. He is not a trained scientist--though distinction in the legal profession often implies scientific precision of thought--but a sportsman of the best type with a notable talent for close and accurate observation and a realistic perception of the danger now threatening the great game bird to which he owes so many days of thrilling adventure.

Thus in this book he has two main themes: he writes, with enormous zest and a wealth of personal anecdote, about hunting the wild turkey; and he writes, with intense earnestness and ample first hand knowledge, about saving the wild turkey. No other hunter has given so detailed and intimate and comprehensive an account on the sport of turkey hunting. No conservation effort or movement in behalf of the wild turkey can afford to neglect the lessons of Mr. Davis' long and careful study of the turkey in its native wilds or can ignore--as doctrinaire professionals are sometimes in such cases inclined to do--the recommendations which this non-professional but highly competent observer submits as most likely to bring the great bird safely through this critical period of its history.

During nearly all the fifty-five years of Mr. Davis' hunting and studying, the South Carolina Low Country in which he lived was probably the finest wild turkey range in the world. There this feathered aristocrat was found not only in great abundance but also in its original purity uncontaminated by the ignoble blood which in most other regions has crept into the wild turkey's veins. There today in the Francis Marion National Forest, the very heart of the ancient domain of this purest and finest strain, an experiment is being carried out in wild turkey conservation which Mr. Davis believes is fraught with significance and promise for the whole country. That is but another illustration of how far beyond the state's borders the interest and value of this book extends. Yet it is distinctively a South Carolinian book, and it is pleasant to know that, true to the tradition of William Elliott's classic of a century ago, South Carolina and a South Carolinian have contributed so worthy a volume to the library of American natural history and American field sport.
Language
English
Pages
328
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Small-Arms Technical Publishing Company
Release
August 25, 2022

The American Wild Turkey (A Samworth Book on Hunting)

Henry E. Davis
2.5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
The American Wild Turkey by Henry E. Davis is one of the two most important books written about the king of American game birds, the other being The Wild Turkey in Virginia by H. S. Mosby and C. O. Handley. Messrs. Mosby and Handley are professional scientists and their book, a model of its kind, is an invaluable scientific treatise. Henry Davis is an able and distinguished lawyer whose favorite recreation, ever since his boyhood days on the family plantation in the South Carolina Low Country, has been the pursuit and study of the wild turkey. He is not a trained scientist--though distinction in the legal profession often implies scientific precision of thought--but a sportsman of the best type with a notable talent for close and accurate observation and a realistic perception of the danger now threatening the great game bird to which he owes so many days of thrilling adventure.

Thus in this book he has two main themes: he writes, with enormous zest and a wealth of personal anecdote, about hunting the wild turkey; and he writes, with intense earnestness and ample first hand knowledge, about saving the wild turkey. No other hunter has given so detailed and intimate and comprehensive an account on the sport of turkey hunting. No conservation effort or movement in behalf of the wild turkey can afford to neglect the lessons of Mr. Davis' long and careful study of the turkey in its native wilds or can ignore--as doctrinaire professionals are sometimes in such cases inclined to do--the recommendations which this non-professional but highly competent observer submits as most likely to bring the great bird safely through this critical period of its history.

During nearly all the fifty-five years of Mr. Davis' hunting and studying, the South Carolina Low Country in which he lived was probably the finest wild turkey range in the world. There this feathered aristocrat was found not only in great abundance but also in its original purity uncontaminated by the ignoble blood which in most other regions has crept into the wild turkey's veins. There today in the Francis Marion National Forest, the very heart of the ancient domain of this purest and finest strain, an experiment is being carried out in wild turkey conservation which Mr. Davis believes is fraught with significance and promise for the whole country. That is but another illustration of how far beyond the state's borders the interest and value of this book extends. Yet it is distinctively a South Carolinian book, and it is pleasant to know that, true to the tradition of William Elliott's classic of a century ago, South Carolina and a South Carolinian have contributed so worthy a volume to the library of American natural history and American field sport.
Language
English
Pages
328
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Small-Arms Technical Publishing Company
Release
August 25, 2022

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