Book excerpt: Published by The Derrydale Press in 1935, this beautiful book is a tour de force on angling for large American game fish. The book includes 65 plates, including five color plates by noted artist Lynn Bogue Hunt, 36 black and white photographs. thirteen illustrations by various artists and eleven maps drawn by Hunt. The book includes contributions by such well known American sportsmen as Ernest Hemingway. Francis H. Lowe, S. Kip Farrington, Jr. and George C. Thomas, III. Combining practical advice on how to catch a wide variety of game fish with an elegant, literary style makes the book fun to read. It includes chapters on sailfish, marlin, tarpon, bonefish, swordfish, tuna, striped bass, channel bass, wahoo and a separate section on big game fish records. It covers the entire geography of American big game fishing from the Gulf of Mexico to the waters off Southern California.