Ellis Ron Editor (4 results)

Hard cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Inscribed "12 Nov 2005 Kentucky For Gordon, Good Fishing! Hope you enjoy these waters. tight Lines, Ron Ellis". From the moment Daniel Boone first "gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and .beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below," generations of Kentuckians have developed rich and enduring relationships with the land that surrounds them. Of Woods & Waters: A Kentucky Outdoors Reader is filled with loving tributes, written across the Commonwealth's two centuries, offered in celebration of Kentucky's widely varied environmental wonders that nurture both life and art.Ron Ellis, an outdoors enthusiast and noted writer, has gathered art, fiction, personal essays and poetry from many of Kentucky's best-known authors for this comprehensive collection. The anthology begins with famed illustrator John James Audubon's eloquent account of extracting catfish from the Ohio River and progresses through over fifty contributions by both established and emerging writers. Covering two hundred years of hunting, fishing, camping, cooking, hiking, and canoeing in Kentucky's woods and waters, these classic and original works show how writers have, as celebrated Kentucky historian Thomas D. Clark suggests, "fallen under the spell of the land."Of Woods & Waters does not merely recount fond memories. Many authors presented in this collection echo the sentiments of the award-winning novelist and essayist Barbara Kingsolver, who writes, "Much of what I know about life, and almost everything I believe about the way I want to live, was formed in those woods" adjacent to her birthplace in Nicholas County, Kentucky. The works collected in Of Woods & Waters serve to honor and defend what many recognize as a sadly declining way of life, one born out of genuine reverence for the beauty and bounty of nature.The contributions of Wendell Berry, Janice Holt Giles, Bobbie Ann Mason, Jesse Stuart, James Still, Robert Penn Warren, James Baker Hall, Silas House, and other esteemed authors examine the delicate balances that must be struck between humanity and nature, between progress and sustainable living. While raising these crucial questions, these writings center on connections among friends and family in Kentucky's beautiful natural surroundings. The authors spin tales of the whistling wings of ducks overhead, the heart-pounding excitement of a white-tailed buck's sudden appearance, the joy of childhood plunges into cold lake waters after hours of climbing trees, and the thrill of watching sons and daughters catch their first fish. In these writings, the bountiful Kentucky wilderness that first captivated frontier settlers remains vibrantly alive. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very fine. Skyhorse Publishing, New York, 2010, first printing. Not illustrated. 6.25" x 9.25". 222 pp. Tan paper covered boards, lavender paper covered spine. ".thirty-five remarkable stories and a rare poem - a fresh, exhilarating collection of a renowned writer's previously uncollected works.such as 'An Angler's Lament' (1987), 'Spring on the Miramichi' (1991), 'A Haunting Obsession with the Brown Trout' (1992), and many more". Includes a story of turkey hunting, others on hunting ruffed grouse, deer, etc. Very fine in very fine wrapper.…

paperback. Condition: As New. Paperback--no flaws.

Soft cover. Condition: New. New condition glossy color illustrated softcover wraps. Includes Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reflections on The Green Hornet by Van Williams; Afterword by Dean Jeffries and Author Biographies. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings. "Moonstone is proud to present The Green Hornet Chronicles, the first anthology featuring all-new, original crime fiction tales of the man who hunts the biggest of all game, public enemies that even the FBI can't reach! It's the mid 1960s, the political climate is shaky, there's civil unrest, freedom and equality issues erupt everywhere from film to music to out in the streets. On police records, The Green Hornet is actually a wanted criminal, a master manipulator, a crime boss who has his fingers in every pie. In reality, The Green Hornet is actually Britt Reid, owner-publisher of the Daily Sentinel. His goal is to destroy crim from within by posing as a criminal himself." - from the rear outer cover. Procopio, Ruben (illustrator).…