Skyhorse imprint: 3212 books
by Mike Gaddis
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
There is a juncture in every journey when your heart must find soon again something long, dear, and gently known.
There is a waver in the wildest of wanderlust when the soul runs dry and must come again to the thing, the place, or the somebody that can make it replete.
There is to every life an awakening...
Promise of Revenge
Two Western Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Two Western novellas by the incomparable Lauran Paine, a titan of the Western genre.
Tomahawk Meadow” tells the story of Ladd Buckner, a stranger who arrives in a small town in Arizona Territory. Buckner buys the local saddle and harness shop, but when the townspeople recognize his stitch...
The Philosophical Fisherman
Reflections on Why We Fish
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
My favorite book on fishing-a classic from one of my favorite writers.”
-John Randolph, former editor, Fly Fisherman
Earthy and philosophical, practical yet speculative-this book is a wonderful and enduring portrait of a fisherman’s temperament. Full of the late Harold F. Blaisdell’s...
Side Casts
A Collection of Fly-Fishing Yarns by a Guy Who Can Spin Them
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This beautiful, eclectic collection of first-person stories from bamboo rod-making legend Hoagy B. Carmichael explores various important parts of his life and how they tie into the sport of fishing. Growing up in Beverly Hills with a famous jazz musician for a father, young Hoagy wasn’t exactly...
Fish Won't Let Me Sleep
The Obsessions of a Lifetime Flyfisherman
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Have you ever been so passionate about something that it occupies your every waking moment? In his latest collection of essays, celebrated writer and life-long angler James R. Babb reflects on his ardent preoccupation with the sport of fishing-one so strong that it often keeps him awake--and further...
Crunch & Des
Classic Stories of Saltwater Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Philip Wylie’s enthralling tales of saltwater fishing have been entertaining readers of the Saturday Evening Post since 1939. Captain Crunch Adams, skipper of the charter boat Poseidon , and his friend and partner Des Smith adventure high and low in the waters of Florida, coming face to face...
Crazy for Rivers
Tales of Trout Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
That autumn, I went a little crazy for rivers.”
So writes Bill Barich, and this charming volume captures the essence of obsession. The hours he spent on various streams became a meditation on family, friends, and the natural world. To anyone who remembers the infinite patience of a grandfather...
A Hangman's Diary
The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573?1617
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
From 1573 to 1617, Master Franz Schmidt was the executioner for the towns of Bamberg and Nuremberg. During that span, he personally executed more than 350 people while keeping a journal throughout his career.
A Hangman’s Diary is not only a collection of detailed writings by Schmidt about...
Riders of the Coyote Moon
A Western Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Disputed land pits two Indian tribes against each other in a life-or-death battle!
Reece Canby spent years as a youngster on the nearby Mescalero Apache reservation. By treaty, the Mescalero tribe owns the Sentinel Basin. But the Mescaleros’ grazing land is desired by members of the Teepee...
Whiskey Kills
A Killstraight Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
His Arrows Fly Straight into the Hearts of His Enemies was the Comanche name given him by his father. But the Pale Eyes gave him a new name, Daniel Killstraight, and that was the name by which he was known after his return to the reservation of the Kowas, Comanches, and Apaches. He became a native...
The Pocket Guide to Seasonal Walleye Tactics
An Angler's Quick Reference Book
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
How to catch these sought-after game fish in any season and any condition.
If you want to catch a walleye on a consistent basis, you need to know its behavior-what it eats, where it prefers to hold, where it goes when water temperatures change, and more.
In The Pocket Guide to Seasonal...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Heart of Darkness author Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857) was a Polish writer who learned to read, write, and speak English after he was granted British nationality in 1886. Although his peers accepted him as a British gentleman, he never forgot where he came from. In...
Brick Fairy Tales and Greek Myths: Box Set
Classic Stories for the Whole Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Cinderella, the almighty Zeus, and LEGO? Respectively, Brick Fairy Tales and Brick Greek Myths were both huge hits. Now, for the first time, both of these books are available in a beautiful box set with two thousand full-color photographs depicting your favorite fairy-tale characters and the almighty...
Great Short Novels of Henry James
Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw, The Beast in the Jungle, The Aspern Papers, The Pupil, Lady Barberina, The Siege of London, The Author of Beltraffio, An International Episode, Madame de Mauves
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Henry James was one of the greatest and most prolific American authors ever to have lived.
Henry James believed that the short novel was the perfect literary form, and his achievements here brilliantly display his mastery of it. Noted literary critic Philip Rahv has collected ten of James’s...