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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
For hunters, listening to the accounts of kindred spirits recalling the drama and action that go with good days afield ranks among life's most pleasurable activities. Here, then, are some of the best hunting tales ever written, stories that sweep from charging lions in the African bush to mountain goats in the mountain crags of the Rockies; from the gallant bird dogs of the Southern pinelands to the great Western hunts of Theodore Roosevelt. Great...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
"When his father-in-law first took him hunting on his Kentucky farm, Walt Harrington had never shot a rabbit. A high-profile Washington Post reporter with a taste for manicures and designer suits, he felt silly in his borrowed hunting gear, not quite knowing how to hold the shotgun Alex had given to him as a gift. And he worried about whether he would get along with Alex's hunting buddies - three rough-edged African-American country men who seemed...
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"The true tales in this collection will take readers from the chicken houses of Arkansas to the caves of Venezuela and Mexico to the coast of Alaska. These fifteen adventures range from amusing to life threatening. Some are filled with suspense and danger in exotic places, while others document more routine but important biological field and lab work."--BOOK JACKET