Tales from Jackpine Bob
Bob Cary’s entertaining stories of life in the outdoors will touch your heart and make you laugh. Despite Bob’s many years as an expert woodsman, when he relates an adventure or a misadventure, the joke is always on him. Whether you read Tales from Jackpine Bob by firelight or lamplight, you’ll enjoy Bob’s warm humor and buoyant spirit.
Bob Cary’s entertaining stories of life in the outdoors will touch your heart and make you laugh. Despite Bob’s many years as an expert woodsman, when he relates an adventure or a misadventure, the joke is always on him. Whether you read Tales from Jackpine Bob by firelight or lamplight, you’ll enjoy Bob’s warm humor and buoyant spirit.
Most of us rely on air conditioning for comfort, automobiles for travel, and television sets for entertainment. Bob Cary is more at home with sleeping bag, canoe, and fishing rod. That sets him apart and equips him to tell good stories of an outdoor life well lived. I greatly enjoyed this book.
Charles Kuralt, host of CBS’s On the Road with Charles Kuralt
Bob Cary’s entertaining stories of life in the outdoors will touch your heart and make you laugh. Despite Bob’s many years as an expert woodsman, when he relates an adventure or a misadventure, the joke is always on him. Whether you read Tales from Jackpine Bob by firelight or lamplight, you’ll enjoy Bob’s warm humor and buoyant spirit.
Most of us rely on air conditioning for comfort, automobiles for travel, and television sets for entertainment. Bob Cary is more at home with sleeping bag, canoe, and fishing rod. That sets him apart and equips him to tell good stories of an outdoor life well lived. I greatly enjoyed this book.
Charles Kuralt, host of CBS’s On the Road with Charles Kuralt
Bob Cary is the best storyteller I know. More clarity comes from his pen than I can coax out of my Nikon. I wonder if he would trade?
Jim Brandenburg, author and photographer
One hilarious anecdote after another keeps this book a page-turner.
Morris Daily Herald
Contents
A Touch of Class
The Fifteen-Horse Motor
Sportsmanship and Channel Catfish
The Chicken Thief
The Great Pigeon Caper
The Winchester Fly Rod
A Faint Odor of Fish
Simply Shocking Fish Stories
Thanksgiving Goose
A Matter of Civic Good
The Irish Rebellion
Brown Trout and Other Problems
The Wendigo
Pop Dixon
The Great Crooked Lake Bear Hunt
Nuts of Neverhunt
Hustled on the Mitawan
The Pope and Young Bear
Playing It Close
The Very Important Person
Luck on the Redgut
Going Home
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Striding exuberantly into the 21st century, Bob Cary recounts memorable experiences of the 20th century: fun-filled boyhood escapades during the Depression, anecdotes from the war years, tales of guiding dignitaries in the BWCAW, verbal snapshots of intriguing friends and neighbors up north, reflections on becoming a bridegroom in his seventies.
