Robert DeMott
Born
in New Canaan, Connecticut, The United States
November 22, 1943
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Astream: American Writers on Fly Fishing
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6 editions
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2012
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Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs
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10 editions
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2010
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Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated
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Up Late Reading Birds of America: Prose Poems
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Angling Days: A Fly Fisher's Journals
5 editions
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2016
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Modern Arnis The Master Text
2 editions
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2015
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Modern Arnis - The Master Text Companion Volumes Set 1,2 and 3
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2015
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Steinbeck's Typewriter: Essays on His Art
5 editions
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1996
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Up Late Reading Birds of America
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Steinbeck's Imaginarium: Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters
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“No matter how fast or slow the action, no matter how staunch or bedraggled the point, no matter how unerring or wayward the shots, our chief pleasure has always been in the shared experience of watching dogs work, anticipating the choreography of point, flush, and shot, but also looking sideways, too, carrying on animated conversations about everything under the sun, and perhaps more than anything else, storing up sustaining impressions and vivid memories to call up at times like this when the only hunt worth its name is the hunt for words.”
― Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs
― Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs
“Few things taste better or deliver a more unalloyed experience than wild game we have killed, cleaned, and cooked ourselves (especially grouse, woodcock, teal, wood ducks - birds that simply cannot be domesticated, pen reared, or artificially farmed in any way, shape, or form.) Yet we also realize that, depending on one's degree of personal sensitivity, capacity for ironic reflection, or susceptibility to guilt, there is always that signal moment, when the dog delivers a dead bird to hand, that can occasion a haunting, unresolvable mix of "self-satisfaction and self-reproach," as Texas-born novelist William Humphrey says in Open Season: Sporting Adventures (1986), because "you hold in your hand the creature you both love and love to kill.”
― Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs
― Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs
“For my money, training a pointing dog is really a matter of respecting and refining the dog's instincts, and then getting the hell out of the way. As a friend of mine, a first-rate professional handler in our Northeast Kingdom, once put it to me: "Some guys pay me $2,500 for training their bird dogs, but most of it should go into training them." Or, as the late Bill White of Washington County, Maine, once advised me when I was green to this business: Soon as you learn that your dog knows more than you do, you'll be ready to use him right." - Sydney Lea in the story 'Blessed'.”
― Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs
― Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs
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