Making Game: An Essay on Woodcock - Paperback

by Guy de la Valdène (Author), Russell Chatham (Illustrator), Robert Demott (Foreword by)

Making Game is an edgy, elegant examination of the habits and history of a reclusive gamebird native to Europe and North America, the woodcock.

Author Biography

Guy de la Valdène was a writer, photographer, and sportsman who was raised in the United States and France. His essays have appeared in publications such as Gray's Sporting Journal and he wrote five books; Making Game: An Essay on Woodcock (1985), For a Handful of Feathers (1995), Red Stag: A Novel (2003), The Fragrance of Grass (2011), and On the Water: A Fishing Memoir (2015). He died in 2023.