GBE and his great books: "The Upland Shooting Life" and "The Best of Nash Buckingham" (as if anything TNB ever penned wasn't a "Best"--got me hooked on double guns and the gentlemanly manners and mien of Southern Gent'men indeed-- Of all Nash's works on non-gun articles, I love "Play House" the best- and of his shooting advice stories- "The Dove"-- A gent like Capt. Money as Nash described him in his great story "The Shootin'ist Gent'man, in some wise recalls to my mind the tag line from a Robert W. Service poem: "So they break the hearts of kith and kin, and roam the will at will!" One could also argue that the central characters in both Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge" might also blend well into that mileu!!
