Better on a Rising Tide

Better on a Rising Tide is Tom’s 3rd book that contains 22 chapters that previously appeared in several outdoor magazines in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Colonel Kelly writes about Wild Turkey hunting and Southern States including social life and customs. He also writes about the southern timber industry that he was an integral part of for more than 50 years.

22 chapters of pure Tom Kelly prose. “Nobody ever really knows how much of his makeup is environment and how much is heredity — no matter what stories you grandmother use to tell about the gallantry of your ancestors. But there were certain specific things that happened in your formative years that marked you, and sometimes you have the capacity to remember them exactly as they happened.” Tom notes, ”Chapter 20, the Tuning, is the only wedding Field & Stream ever covered.”

Copyright Tom Kelly Inc. 1995