Labs Afield [Hardcover]

Alan & Sandy Carey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 20, 2000 | Series: Petlife Library

The only pictorial anthology devoted to hunting Labs.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Alan and Sandy Carey are the photographers of \u0022Love of Goldens.\u0022 Their work has also appeared in nine other books and in many publications, including \u0022National Geographic,\u0022 \u0022National Wildlife,\u0022 \u0022Audubon,\u0022 \u0022Smithsonian,\u0022 \u0022Life,\u0022 \u0022Time,\u0022 \u0022Newsweek,\u0022 \u0022Outdoor Life,\u0022 \u0022Field & Stream,\u0022 and other magazines and calendars.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Voyageur Press (October 20, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896584895
• ISBN-13: 978-0896584891
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,349,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Labs Afiled..............Five Stars, August 11, 2001

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John Cowan (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Labs Afield (Hardcover)

I purchased this book while on vacation in Maine this past June. I forgot to bring a book with me and went into a Coastal Book Shoppe and found this one. If you are into looking a beatiful photos of labs and reading informative and comical strories about them... this is the book for you! I read this one in a few hours.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Anyone Who Loves Labrador Retrievers, January 8, 2004

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Barron Laycock "Labradorman" (Temple, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Labs Afield (Hardcover)

Even though none of my four Labrador Retrievers hunts for anymore substantial than the errant squirrel or chipmunk that happens to scamper through my big back yard that the Labs haunt at every opportunity, I read this wonderful book with awe and surprise, for author Todd Berger has used both a pictoral and an amusing descriptive narrative approach sure to enchant the casual Labrador fan. This is a book devoted exclusively to field dogs, meaning that branch of the Labrador breeding tree tuned specifically to the needs and prerogatives of the hunter, and his or her quest for the perfect hunting companion, which the Labrador at his best certainly is.

Berger employs an electic mix of talented sports writers who relay entertaining personal anecdotes concerning their adventures with their own Labs, and as any Lab owner can tell you, the dogs have such loveable and irrascible personalities it impossible not to have such amusing tall tales to tell. Indeed, to me this book represents a virtual celebration of wonders and qualities of the country's most popular working dog, a dog now so universally recognized as to literally define what it means to have a "family" dog. This particulur volume now rests on my living room coffee table, with a number of other such books, and it always provides guests and visitors with grist for comparing what they see whirling around them by way of my own dogs with somewhat less frantic and worshipping models of the very dogs so many of us have come to love. Enjoy!