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 Author Name: Galen Winter
Title: THE BEST OF THE MAJOR
Binding: Hardcover
Type: BOOK
Publisher: DOWN EAST BOOKS
ISBN Number: 0892725400 / 9780892725403
Seller ID: 1030417
The misadventures of a cigar-smoking, Scotch-drinking bird hunter. Well-loved columns from SHOOTING SPORTSMAN magazine. 5.5x8 inches, 160 pgs.
'For more than a decade, readers of Shooting Sportsman magazine have delighted in the eccentric character and colorful misadventures of the fictional Major Nathaniel Peabody (U.S. Army, retired). These accounts are delivered in fine fashion by the major's long-suffering lawyer, who manages Peabody's meager trust fund. Now, by popular demand, author Galen Winter has collected the finest of his stories in this anthology, The Best of the Major.
Just who is Major Nathaniel Peabody' The man who gave him life describes him this way in the book's preface:
"His extreme independence makes the major popular in some circles and quite unpopular in others. However, the matters that are important to the major do not include a longing for popularity, involvement with any of the temporary fads of society, or conformity with the politically correct.
"Shooting over an English setter on an abandoned Georgia farm, watching a November sunrise from a Manitoba duck blind, calling Argentine geese into a decoy set spread out on a Patagonia plain, enjoying single-malt Scotch whisky and a Dominican Republic cigar after a meal of grouse, cooked in an iron skillet over a campfire--these are the pursuits that attract the major."
EXCERPT FROM THE BEST OF THE MAJOR:
Beyond accepting that money is an element essential to his frequent wingshooting forays, Major Nathaniel Peabody, U.S.A. (ret.), treats all matters financial with disdain. His abilities to deal with such affairs are decidedly limited.
And this is why the last generation of Peabodys considered it prudent to devise his portion of their ample estates to a spendthrift trust. I was named trustee, and that position has evolved into one in which I have the unhappy responsibility of supervising the major's finances -- an undertaking similar to that of cleansing the Augean stables. (And, I sometimes believe, involving a lot of the same kind of material.)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Galen Winter, a former attorney, started writing seriously about his passions -- hunting and fishing -- in 1984, authoring books and contributing many articles to several national outdoor magazines. He has fished all over the western hemisphere-- from the Northwest Territories to Patagonia. Galen and his wife, Jessine, live in Shawano, Wisconsin.
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