{"product_id":"william-elliotts-carolina-sports-by-land-and-water-including-incidents-of-devil-fishing-wildcat-deer-and-bear-hunting-etc-9780872499874","title":"William Elliott's Carolina Sports by Land and Water: Including Incidents of Devil-Fishing, Wildcat, Deer, and Bear Hunting, Etc.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe wild and woolly adventures of a nineteenth-century sportsman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eCarolina Sports by Land and Water, \u003c\/i\u003e he recorded his most memorable confrontations with nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Elliott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.01w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872499874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA MacArthur fellow, \u003cb\u003eTheodore Rosengarten\u003c\/b\u003e is senior research associate at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies and author of two award-winning books--\u003ci\u003eAll God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter.\u003c\/i\u003e Rosengarten lives in McClellanville, South Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44319579897971,"sku":"9780872499874","price":37.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_d2eeed05-2e7c-4c45-b5fb-93b4935d43af.jpg?v=1771420963","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/william-elliotts-carolina-sports-by-land-and-water-including-incidents-of-devil-fishing-wildcat-deer-and-bear-hunting-etc-9780872499874","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}