Stories of the Old Duck Hunters: & Other Drivel (Gordon Macquarrie Trilogy) (Hardcover)

by Gordon MacQuarrie (Author), Zack Taylor (Compiler) "Quite a few years ago now, a young Associate Editor on the magazine came into my office carrying a manuscript..." (more)
Key Phrases: Mister President, Lake Superior, Shallow Bay (more...)

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Product Description
Masterpieces you can read over and over is how the Washington Post reviewed MacQuarrie's engaging, timeless stories of the misadventures of the Old Duck Hunters Association. Here are 53 classic hunting and fishing stories, some from sporting magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, including unpublished works from the author's literary estate. Available in individual volumes or collected in a slip-cased three-volume set, here is a legacy to today's sportsman from one of America's finest outdoor writers.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Willow Creek Press (March 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572230037
• ISBN-13: 978-1572230033
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #556,871 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I told my wife, if I'm ever in a coma...., June 7, 2000

By	Jeffrey C. Combs "Lockster" (East Coast, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Gordon Macquarrie Trilogy (Audio Cassette)

I told my wife that if I am ever in a coma clinging to life, she should play these tapes. I can't say enough about MacQuarrie and his story telling ability. No one can describe better the experience of huddling in a pre dawn duckblind as wings whistle overhead in the darkness. Nor what it's like to feel the sure pluck of a brown trout at your fly during a spring rain. You will feel the glow of the woodstove and relish the ache in your arms that comes from rowing your boat back to the cedar cabin on a North Wisconsin lake. MacQuarrie's literary voice, the subject, and characters of his stories make my heart ache for a time that I was born too late to experience. Buy this trilogy. If you are a hunter or fisherman you will never regret it. If you aren't but take time to listen to these stories, you might find yourself looking at old shotguns, bamboo flyrods, and bluebill decoys in a different light. You might even find yourself in sleeting rain on a North Lake someday as wings whistle overhead.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Stories of MacQuarrie, May 7, 2000

By	Joe Volovar (Akron, Ohio 44314) - See all my reviews

This is for anyone who is ever thinking about buying a book with stories by MacQuarrie in it. Buy it and don't look back. MacQuarrie wasn't an advertiser like so many things are today. He wrote about everyday people and their love of the out doors. You must be careful though because after you read MacQuarrie it will be hard to find someone to out do him. I never heard of him before I found a book that Zack Taylor compiled with the stories of MacQuarrie flyfishing. Buy anything you can find by him and you won't be sorry. Enjoy MacQuarrie in your private times when you need things to be enjoyable and he'll never let you down.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A collection of absolutely wonderful tales..., March 27, 2007

By	W. M. Robbins "The Badger" (The Beautiful Blue Ridge) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The terms "author" or "writer" do not apply to Mr. MacQuarrie. He is an artist. Reading "Stories of the Old Duck Hunters" will first transport you to your favorite duck blind, with the early morning sun glowing through the morning mist, the winter chill misting your breath and numbing your fingers. Then you will find yourself in the middle of the old Brule river, the cold water swirling around your waders as you try to tease a crafty Brown from behind a rock with a worn no-name brown fly.
MacQuarrie's wonderful story telling will cause you to laugh with joy, sigh with nostalgia, tense with apprehension, and bring the occassional tear to your eye. I found myself many times gazing of into space as I reflected upon my own experiences, the book momentarily forgotten in my hands as MacQuarrie once again made some connection to my thoughts and feelings. If you love the outdoors, and especially if your idea of a perfect day involves the frigid, wet, muddy, foggy self-torture device known as a duck blind, you must read this book.