Labs Afield: Hunting With America's Favorite Retriever

Ducks Unlimited , 2000. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good+. 10x0x8. In this follow-up to the bestseller The Life of a Lab, award-winning photographer Denver Bryan and celebrated author E. Donnall Thomas Jr. team up once again to explore this fascinating breed. This time the focus is on Labs doing what they love best: hunting and retrieving waterfowl and upland birds. Photographed all over Canada and the U.S., hunting a variety of ducks and geese and upland game, the Labs in this book are clearly in their element, doing not only what they were born to do but what they live for. Never before have Labrador retrievers been captured so vividly in full-color photographs, so fully alive and animated with the joy and desire and heart that endear them to dog lovers around the world. (10 1/4 x 8 1/4, 160 pages, color photos). Denver Bryan is a full-time wildlife photographer whose images have appeared in countless books, calendars and advertising campaigns over the past two decades as well as graced the pages of such magazines as NATIONAL WILDLIFE, SMITHSONIAN, TIME, NEWSWEEK, NATURAL HISTORY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, FIELD & STREAM, OUTDOOR LIFE, DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE and many more. A lifelong outdoorsman, Don Thomas has been a pilot, hunting guide, and commercial fisherman as well as a physician, writer, and photographer. The Field Editor for Ducks Unlimited, Editor-at-Large for Retriever Journal, and Co-Editor of Traditional Bowhunter Magazine, he also writes regularly about the outdoors for publications such as Gray's Sporting Journal, Alaska Magazine, Salmon and Steelhead Journal, Big Sky Journal, and Fish Alaska. Although much of his work has focused upon wing-shooting, bowhunting, and fly-fishing, he particularly enjoys writing short fiction and essays on natural history.