Meet author Ben Moise at the Preservation Society Book & Gift Shop, 147 King Street, on Saturday, March 13th from 1-3:00pm as he signs his new book, A Southern Sportsman: The Hunting Memoirs of Henry Edwards Davis.
Henry Edwards Davis (1879-1966) was a successful attorney in Florence, South Carolina, and an avid sportsman, horticulturalist, furniture maker, and historian best remembered for his 1949 book, The American Wild Turkey, considered to be the definitive work on wild turkeys and turkey hunting. Between 1932 and 1949 he contributed technical articles on sporting guns, ammunition, and turkey hunting to the American Rifleman.
Published for the first time in Ben Moise's new book, Davis' collection of southern hunting tales describes his many experiences in pursuit of turkeys, deer, ducks, and partridge through the fields, forests, and swamps of South Carolina's Pee Dee region. His memoirs offer a lucid firsthand account of a time before paved roads and river-spanning bridges had penetrated the rural stretches of Williamsburg and Florence counties, when hunting was still one of a southerner's chief social activities.
Ben Moise was a conservation officer with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources from 1978 to 2002. He is the author of Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game Warden: A Memoir and a frequent contributor to the Charleston Post and Courier, Charleston Mercury, Garden and Gun, and other regional publications.
For more information about the book signing at the Preservation Society, please contact Book & Gift Shop Manager Cynthia Setnicka at (843) 722-4630 or csetnicka@preservationsociety.org. To pre-order A Southern Sportsman on our website, please click on the link above.
