{"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 • Author(s): William Elliott | Theodore Rosengarten\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Hunting - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46893435322519,"sku":"9780872499874","price":2364.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780872499874.webp?v=1770316218","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/william-elliotts-carolina-sports-by-land-and-water-including-incidents-of-devil-fishing-wildcat-deer-and-bear-hunting-etc-9780872499874","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}