Customer Rating: Summary: Wonderful Step Back In Time Comment: Wish I had an original print of this gem. Two fellow Hoosiers, deprived of their firearms following the civil war because they served for the Confederacy, take to their old friend - stick and string. If you are an archery nut like me this is an absolute must read. This is the book that started it all. The Tri-Fecta: The Witchery of Archery by Maurice Thompson, Hunting the Hard Way by Howard Hill and Hunting With The Bow and Arrow by Saxton Pope - these should be in every archer's bookcase. Customer Rating: Summary: spellbinding reading Comment: This is a treasure of a book. If you're an American history buff, you will love this. Maurice Thompson writes about his adventures afield with bow and arrow in the post-civil war South. His descriptions of daily life and customs left me with a sense of the times. His commentary is by present-day standards very politically incorrect; however, it comes off as just being authentic. Finally, his detailed accounts of the habits of animals and birds, the weather and trees bring out his unapologetic love of the natural world. He has a most earnest and gentlemanly style of writing. I imagine he was a thoughtful, courteous, and respectful individual. Customer Rating: Summary: Bedtime Reading Comment: A gentle book telling tales of archery in the deep south of USA, poetic and visually descriptive of the slower life of holiday adventures and the enjoyment shared by two brothers with the bow and arrow during the late 1800's, don't be put off that it is a photocopy book of an out of print edition, the print might be bad, but the content is good. Good bedtime reading. Customer Rating: Summary: Like meeting a stranger you have known your whole life. Comment: Like twenty serpents bound together hissed the flying arrows feather. Mauriece Thompson wrote this book in a gentler time for a less politically correct reader. Customer Rating: Summary: If you're into archery you must read this book! Comment: The documentation of two brothers who go into the woods to escape yankee persecution after the civil war. Living off the land and surviving in the swamps of Florida, they live off the land with what their hand-made bows and tackle can produce. If you're into archery or the post civil war this is a must have(if someone had not seen fit to steal my original copy I wouldn't be looking for another).
