Reviews for Orchard House's 4-Year College Admissions Index of Majors & Sports 1994/95

The average rating for Orchard House's 4-Year College Admissions Index of Majors & Sports 1994/95 based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-03-26 00:00:00 Ralf Schiller While this collection contains some fine writing, I'm giving it five stars primarily because of two essays: "He is Crazy and He is Fearless" by Bill Bryson, and "The King of the Ferret Leggers" by Donald Katz. The latter is an interview with Reg Mellor, a retired miner living in Yorkshire, England, who at the age of 69 "...observed with wonder the growing popularity of ferret legging throughout the seventies. He had been hunting with ferrets in the verdant moors and dales outside of Barnsley for much of a century. Because a cold and wet ferret exterminates with a little less enthusiasm than a dry one, Reg used to keep his ferrets in his pants for hours when he hunted in the rain-and it always rained where he hunted. [Says Reg]"The world record was 60 seconds. Sixty seconds! I can stick a ferret up me ass longer than that."" The article was originally published in the October 1987 issue of Outside Magazine. You can read it online here. It has also been reprinted in The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories, with vivid cover art by Ralph Steadman.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-06-23 00:00:00 Stephen Sodaro The Best of Outside Magazine published in 1998. Best parts for me are "He is Crazy, And He is Fearless" by Bill Bryson about Redmond O'Hanlon, my favorite birder and anventurer; "The Heart of the Game," a meditation of hunting by Thomas McGuane, and; "The Same River Twice" by the incomparable David Quammen.