And Paul: I enjoyed your note, too.

David

Back in the ’70s Abercrombie & Fitch, the real one, not the one that bought the name, went into the publishing business and published a series of reprints of hunting and travel books. They were beautifully bound and were printed by Arno Press.

When they came out I bought as many as I could afford. The great thing about this series is that all the books were well written and really captured, and kept, your attention. Whoever edited the series had excellent taste.

Of course they are no longer in print, but you inspired me to check my library and list the books I have. I would suggest that any reader who wants to know a bit of the world of 100 or so years ago try to see if any of these are available in the Gutenberg list. They are all good reads:

Tristram – Coaching Days and Coaching Ways

Turner – Three Years of Hunting and Traping

Baker – The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon / Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa

Pike – The Barren Ground of Canada / Through the Subartic Forest

Selous – A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa / Travels & Adventures in Southeast Africa

Cooper – Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce

Baldwin – African Hunting

Hornaday – Campfires on Desert & Lava / Campfires in the Canadian Rockies

Hammond – Wild Northern Scenes

Pike – The Tent Dwellers

Knight – Cruise of the Falcon

You’ll all probably think I’m nuts. But when Abercrombie & Fitch went out of business I had my Abercrombie credit card framed and it’s in my den now. I guess I can share the number 055 27 304.