- Sign In
- Help
-
My Basket0
Your basket is empty.
The Wild Duck Chase: Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest (Hardback)
Martin J. Smith (author)
£19.99
Hardback
Published: 20/12/2012
- Not available
The Wild Duck Chase takes readers into the peculiar world of competitive duck painting as it played out during the 2010 Federal Duck Stamp Contest-the only juried art competition run by the U.S. government. Since 1934, the duck stamp, which is bought annually by hunters to certify their hunting license, has generated more than $750 million, and 98 cents of each collected dollar has been used to help purchase or lease 5.3 million acres of waterfowl habitat in the United States. As Martin J. Smith chronicles in his revealing narrative, within the microcosm of the duck stamp contest are intense ideological and cultural clashes between the mostly rural hunters who buy the stamps and the mostly suburban and urban birders and conservationists who decry the hunting of waterfowl. The competition also fuels dynamic tensions between competitors and judges, and among the invariably ambitious, sometimes obsessive and eccentric artists-including Minnesota's three fabled Hautman brothers, the "New York Yankees" of competitive duck painting.
Martin Smith takes readers down an arcane and uniquely American rabbit hole into a wonderland of talent, ego, art, controversy, scandal, big money, and migratory waterfowl.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 9780802779526
Weight: 393 g
Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 33 mm
You may also be interested in...
Added to basket
£7.99
Hardback
Added to basket
£8.99
£6.99
Paperback
Added to basket
£9.99
Paperback
Added to basket
£20.00
£17.99
Hardback
Added to basket
£6.99
£5.99
Paperback
Added to basket
£9.99
Paperback
Added to basket
£8.99
Paperback
Added to basket
£9.99
£7.49
Paperback
Added to basket
£14.99
£11.99
Hardback
Added to basket
£9.99
Hardback
Added to basket
£8.99
£6.99
Paperback
Added to basket
£25.00
Hardback
Added to basket
£9.99
Paperback
Added to basket
£8.99
£6.99
Paperback
Added to basket
£9.99
Paperback
Added to basket
£12.99
£10.99
Hardback
Please sign in to write a review
Sign In
Sign In
Click & Collect
Simply reserve online and pay at the counter when you collect.
Available in shop from just two hours, subject to availability.
Thank you for your reservation
Your order is now being processed and we have sent a confirmation email to you at
When will my order be ready to collect?
Following the initial email, you will be contacted by the shop to confirm that your item is available for collection.
Call us on or send us an email at
Unfortunately there has been a problem with your order
Please try again or alternatively you can contact your chosen shop on or send us an email at