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The egret's plumes / Archib...
"Archibald Rutledge's suspenseful story 'The Egret's Plumes' is a cautionary tale exalting the virtues of good sportsmanship, conservation of the natural world, and the universality of parental instincts. Fleeing the relentless plume hunters of their native Florida, a pair of exquisite snowy egrets make a new home--and then a new family--in the South Carolina lowcountry swamps of Blake's Reserve. When the male egret is killed by a poacher, the female is left to defend her nest and raise their hatchlings. Will Ormond, a restless and reckless hunter and heir to the reserve's plantation, spots the surviving egrets after a day of disappointments with his original prey. As he wades into the swamp to gain a better position for his kill shot with his only remaining cartridge, Will comes to recognize elements of his relationship with his own mother in the selfless devotion of the female egret to her young. In this moment of uncharacteristic hesitation, he also realizes that he is no longer alone in the brackish waters of the reserve and that the hunter may have become the hunted. "The Egret's Plumes" is an inspiring, allegorical narrative that illuminates the pitfalls awaiting immoral acts and the saving virtues of selflessness and compassion. This short story was written for publication in an early twentieth-century boy's magazine and was first collected in the privately printed Eddy Press edition of Old Plantation Days (c. 1913). Limited to just a few hundred copies, the Eddy Press edition is highly prized by Rutledge collectors and includes five stories--'Claws, ' 'The Doom of Ravenswood, ' 'The Egret's Plumes, ' 'The Heart of Regal, ' and 'The Ocean's Menace'--not found in the more widely available 1921 Stokes edition of Old Plantation Days. A project of the Humanities Council SC benefiting South Carolina literary programs, this new edition of The Egret's Plumes is illustrated in handsome charcoal etchings by southern artist Stephen Chesley. Award-winning outdoors writerand noted Rutledge scholar Jim Casada provides the volume's introduction, and outdoors writer and author Jacob F. Rivers III offers an afterword"--
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monografia Rebiun38011676 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun38011676 m o d cr ||||||||||| 160502s2016 scu o 000 j eng 2016018486 1058996306 1097120424 1492527173 9781611176735 electronic bk.) 1611176735 electronic bk.) 1611176727 9781611176728 9781611176728 hardcover ;) acid-free paper) AU@ 000062394029 AU@ 000062526409 22573/ctv6vtfkr JSTOR DLC eng rda pn DLC OCLCO N$T OCLCO IDEBK EBLCP OCLCF OCLCO P@U IDB OTZ OCLCQ MERUC OCLCQ WAU OCL WAU SNK DKU AUW INTCL BTN IGB D6H OCL VTS WAU OCLCA AGLDB JSTOR AU@ OCLCQ OCLCO G3B S8J S9I OCL STF OCLCO M8D OCL OCLCQ OCLCO MM9 OCLCQ OCLCO INARC LA0 OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCL OCLCQ HOPLA UKKRT CLOUD pcc n-us-sc FIC 038000 bisacsh FIC 019000 bisacsh NAT 011000 bisacsh SPO 022000 bisacsh 813/.52 23 FIC019000 SPO022000 NAT011000 bisacsh Rutledge, Archibald 1883-1973) author The egret's plumes Archibald Rutledge ; introduction by Jim Casada ; foreword by Jacob F. Rivers III ; illustrated by Stephen Chesley 1605 Columbia, SC University of South Carolina Press [2016] Columbia, SC Columbia, SC University of South Carolina Press 1 online resource 1 online resource Text txt rdacontent computer n rdamedia online resource nc rdacarrier data file rda "A Project of the Humanities Council SC." Cover; Contents; Introduction; The Egret's Plumes; Afterword "Archibald Rutledge's suspenseful story 'The Egret's Plumes' is a cautionary tale exalting the virtues of good sportsmanship, conservation of the natural world, and the universality of parental instincts. Fleeing the relentless plume hunters of their native Florida, a pair of exquisite snowy egrets make a new home--and then a new family--in the South Carolina lowcountry swamps of Blake's Reserve. When the male egret is killed by a poacher, the female is left to defend her nest and raise their hatchlings. Will Ormond, a restless and reckless hunter and heir to the reserve's plantation, spots the surviving egrets after a day of disappointments with his original prey. As he wades into the swamp to gain a better position for his kill shot with his only remaining cartridge, Will comes to recognize elements of his relationship with his own mother in the selfless devotion of the female egret to her young. In this moment of uncharacteristic hesitation, he also realizes that he is no longer alone in the brackish waters of the reserve and that the hunter may have become the hunted. "The Egret's Plumes" is an inspiring, allegorical narrative that illuminates the pitfalls awaiting immoral acts and the saving virtues of selflessness and compassion. This short story was written for publication in an early twentieth-century boy's magazine and was first collected in the privately printed Eddy Press edition of Old Plantation Days (c. 1913). Limited to just a few hundred copies, the Eddy Press edition is highly prized by Rutledge collectors and includes five stories--'Claws, ' 'The Doom of Ravenswood, ' 'The Egret's Plumes, ' 'The Heart of Regal, ' and 'The Ocean's Menace'--not found in the more widely available 1921 Stokes edition of Old Plantation Days. A project of the Humanities Council SC benefiting South Carolina literary programs, this new edition of The Egret's Plumes is illustrated in handsome charcoal etchings by southern artist Stephen Chesley. Award-winning outdoors writerand noted Rutledge scholar Jim Casada provides the volume's introduction, and outdoors writer and author Jacob F. Rivers III offers an afterword"-- Provided by publisher Herons- Fiction Swamps- Fiction Herons - Fiction Hérons- Romans, nouvelles, etc Marécages- Romans, nouvelles, etc FICTION- Literary. SPORTS & RECREATION- Hunting. NATURE- Environmental Conservation & Protection. FICTION- Sports. Herons. Swamps. South Carolina- Fiction Caroline du Sud- Romans, nouvelles, etc South Carolina. Hunting stories short stories. Short stories. Allegories. Hunting stories. Hunting fiction. Fiction. Allegories. Hunting fiction. Short stories. Allegories. Nouvelles. Allégories. Chesley, Stephen C. 1952-) illustrator Print version Rutledge, Archibald, 1883-1973. Egret's plumes. Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, [2016] 9781611176728 (DLC) 2016012019