The Old Man and the Boy Alaska 150 black-and-white illustrations

150 black-and-white illustrations

including Izaak Walton

Book is good-minus

His memoir offers a lucid firsthand account of a time before paved roads and river-spanning bridges had penetrated the rural stretches of Williamsburg and Florence counties

Antebellum and post-Civil War tales reflect changes in the social and economic composition of the hunting class in the South

The Old Man and the Boy Alaska 150 black-and-white illustrationsRobert Ruark, The Old Man and the Boy. NY: Henry Holt & Co., 1957. [x], 303 pages. Hardbound in dust jacket. Illustrated. 39th printing. This work, arguably the single finest volume by an American outdoor writer. $60.