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Guns Magazine, Feb, 2001 by Scott Farrell

Looking for something to spice up your coffee table? Or maybe just something to tide you over until it's time to start planning for this year's hunt? If so, then do we have a book, for you.

Game Days is a beautifully illustrated, coffee table book celebrating the spirit of the hunt, complete with both its triumphs and its defeats. Quotes from hunting enthusiasts -- Teddy Roosevelt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Weldell Holmes and Jack O'Connor, among others -- punctuate wonderful photographs of game, wilderness and the hunting life. Chapters describing the yearly ritual, of the hunting season, from the trip to the range for "sighting in" to the unique phenomenon which is "Opening Day," will give you a few laughs and a few moments of deep reflection.

You'll find yourself paging through Game Days again and again, lingering over the pictures and contemplating the many quotes -- and, in the end, wanting to share them all with your hunting buddies. Game Days retails for $35 and is available from Willow Creek Press.

Or, if you prefer something a bit more practical, Willow Creek also offers a selection of outstanding cookbooks for the hunter. Their "Fish & Game Mastery Library" series includes Venison, Pheasant & Quail and Ducks & Geese. Other cookbooks, such as The Northwoods Table, include a wide variety of recipes which celebrate the spirit of game cooking.