American Sporting Periodicals (eBook)

An Annotated Bibliography

M. L. Biscotti (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
312 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0391-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is the first comprehensive listing of American field sports periodicals, beginning in 1829. It includes information such as the magazine’s title, years of publication, frequency of issue, publisher, and general content. American Sporting Periodicals is a valuable reference tool for collectors and researchers of field sports in America.

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Since the 1800s, American periodicals devoted to field sports have been reporting developments in techniques, trends, legislation, conservation, and more. They therefore provide a detailed examination of the rich and broad history of hunting, fishing, foxhunting, and related shooting sports in America. American Sporting Periodicals: An Annotated Bibliography lists all the periodicals on field sports published in America from the early 1800s to 1950a total of more than 600 titles. Each entry lists information such as years of publication, frequency of issue, publisher, general content, and first and last date of issuance. The book also includes more than twenty-five images of magazine covers and front pages, diagrams that trace various name changes and mergers, and a detailed timeline. Exhaustively researched and carefully compiled, this first comprehensive listing of American sporting periodicals will serve as a valuable reference tool for collectors and researchers of field sports in America.

Autor

M. L. Biscotti is a retired antiquarian bookseller with a passion for the literature of foxhunting. He is the author of The Borzoi Books for Sportsmen (1992), The American Sporting Book Series (1994), The Bibliography of American Sporting Books (1997), Paul Brown: Master of Equine Art (2001), and Six Centuries of Foxhunting: An Annotated Bibliography (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).

Inhalt

Foreword by Ken CallahanAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Sporting Periodical as the Voice of ConservationA Guide to Using This BookEntries A to ZAppendix A: Name Changes and Mergers DiagramsAppendix B: Lesser Known or Short-Lived PeriodicalsAppendix C: A Time Line of the Sporting PeriodicalsBibliographyIndex by TitleIndex by Editor or PublisherAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 35 Illustrations including: - 35 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Schlagworte: American Angler • American Field • American Periodicals • American Sportsman • conservation movement • Ducks Unlimited • Field and Stream • Field Sports • Forest and Stream • game conservation • game exploitation • Hunting • League of American Sportsman • maine woods • Minnesota Conservation Volunteer • National Sportsman's Association • outdoor life • Outdoor Recreation • outdoorsman • Pheasants Forever • Rod and Gun • sporting magazines • Sporting Periodicals • Sports Afield • Three Spirit • Trout Unlimited • Whitetails Unlimited • Wildlife Management Institute • Wildlife Protection Fund
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-0391-5 / 1538103915
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-0391-3 / 9781538103913