An Outdoor Sporting Life
A Celebration of Heartland Hunting, Fishing, Friendship, and Landscape
Published on 27. August 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
172 pages
978-1-4917-7104-4 (ISBN)
Description
Scott Irwin grew up in a time when children did chores that instilled a hands-on work ethic, but there was still time to explore the wild things.
Armed first with a slingshot carefully crafted from a forked box elder limb and powered by pre-WWII red rubber inner tube strips, he was soon using a Daisy BB gun to hunt backyard critters. He also enjoyed small-water fishing.
By age twelve, he was stalking squirrels and cottontails, and it wasn't long before he'd mastered a tack-driving Remington 511 .22 with five-shot clip that thinned out the jackrabbits that swarmed southwest Kansas in the 1950s.
Later, he'd buy a Winchester Model 12 that opened up a whole new realm of wing shooting. It was a love affair that would continue through marriage, graduate school, and a distinguished career as a public school and university teacher-all the way until "retirement."
He'd also write a popular column about his outdoor adventures for The Emporia Gazette, and he shares his greatest, wildest adventures across the Kansas Flint Hills, Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, South Dakota, and West Texas in "An Outdoor Sporting Life."
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
259 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4917-7104-4 (9781491771044)
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I am an agricultural economist and hold the Laurence J. Norton Chair of Agricultural Marketing at the University of Illinois. My best-known work is on commodity market speculation and biofuel markets. In addition to publishing hundreds of scholarly articles in my nearly 40-year career, I have written articles and op-eds for the New York Times, Washington Times, and Time magazine. I work very hard at engaging with the public and enjoy writing immensely. Much to my surprise, I am the most widely followed agricultural economist in the world on social media.I am a long-time member of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) and was named a Fellow in 2013, the highest honor bestowed by the Association. I earned a B.S. in Agricultural Business from Iowa State University and both an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University. My lifelong fascination with commodity markets started as a young boy tagging along with my father to check the latest prices from 'Chicago' at the local grain elevator.Detailed information on my professional activities can be found at my website: https://scotthirwin.com/.