Hunting category: 19490 books
Legendary Hunts
Short Stories from the Boone and Crockett Awards
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
The Boone and Crockett Club is pleased to present a collection of 43 short stories recounting the adventures for some of the most outstanding native North American big game trophies ever taken. All of these stories appeared in Boone and Crockett Awards books and were handpicked for the special way...
by Jamel DuBois
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Guns Over Africa is an affirmation of sport hunting, and in this context, hunting that contributes to the economy of developing countries within the rules of international wildlife conservation and preservation. This does not mean that the hunter cannot enjoy the sport; it’s not all high-minded...
A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa (Illustrated)
A Narrative of Nine Years Spent Amongst the Game of the Far Interior of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The Boone and Crockett Club has brought back to life Frederick Courteney Selous' epic African adventure in a meticulously remastered, high-quality paperback edition. Follow noted adventurer Selous as he spends nine years amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa as a professional hunter...
Months of the Sun
Forty Years of Elephant Hunting in the Zambezi Valley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Ian Nyschens (pronounced \nations\") shot as many elephants as Walter Bell did--well over 1,000--and under much more difficult circumstances. His book will rank or surpass the best elephant-ivory hunting books published in the twentieth century. Remarkably, his adventures took place much later than the...
The Last Ivory Hunter
The Saga of Wally Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1988
A chance meeting around a safari campfire on the banks of the Mupamadazi River leads to The Last Ivory Hunter: The Saga of Wally Johnson, a grand tale of African adventure by renowned hunting author Peter Hathaway Capstick.
Wally Johnson spent half a century in Mozambique hunting white gold—ivory....
by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While he is best known for being the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt is also remembered for his immense love of nature, animals, and game hunting. "African Game Trails" is Roosevelt's memoirs about a hunting trip to Africa that he took with his son Kermit in 1908. In the text,...
by Dave Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
From the author of Healthy Bastards, the man known as the 'Flying Doctor' is back, this time with his misadventures, escapades and high jinks from a life of medicine, aviation and hunting. For the first time, Dave Baldwin, known throughout the backcountry as the Flying Doctor, shares his tales from...
And Now We Shall Do Manly Things
Discovering My Manhood Through the Great (and Not-So-Great) American Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Craig Heimbuch, urban dad, journalist, and editor-in-chief of manofthehouse.com offers readers a humorous exploration of hunting culture in And Now We Shall Do Manly Things. Outdoors enthusiasts, fans of A.J. Jacobs's The Know-It-All and the Bill Bryson classic, A Walk in the Woods will appreciate...
Whitetail Nation
My Season in Pursuit of the Monster Buck
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
A dedicated deer hunter “writes with humor and insight” about his adventures—and misadventures—in the wild (Orlando Sentinel).
Every autumn, millions of men and women across the country don their camo, stock up on doe urine, and undertake a quintessential American tradition—deer hunting....
Cannibals and Big Game
True Tales of Cannibals, Big-Game Hunting, and Exploration in Portuguese West Africa, 1917-1921
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
As World War I rages around the globe, Chan Beebe and his young bride, Elizabeth, take a steamer to Angola and trek the ancient slave trails there in search of coveted petroleum to fuel the Allies' war machine. They find a brutal continent, where death, cannibalism, and deadly fevers are commonplace....
A Thousand Deer
Four Generations of Hunting and the Hill Country
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In November, countless families across Texas head out for the annual deer hunt, a ritual that spans generations, ethnicities, socioeconomics, and gender as perhaps no other cultural experience in the state. Rick Bass's family has returned to the same hardscrabble piece of land in the Hill Country—"the...
by Shannon Rizzotto, John Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
A Beginner’s Guide to TrappingTrapping Tips and TechniquesTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter OneTrapping for the BeginnerLand TrappingChapter TwoWildlife Tracking ChartWater TrappingTanning HidesChapter ThreeSelling your HidesChapter FourTrapping Safety, Basic Regulations, and Recommended...
The Wild Duck Chase
Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
THE WILD DUCK CHASE is the basis for “The Million Dollar Duck,” a documentary feature film, directed by Brian Golden Davis and written by Martin J. Smith, premiering at The Slamdance Film Festival in January 2016. The book takes readers into the peculiar world of competitive duck painting as it...
My Health is Better in November
Thirty-Five Stories of Hunting and Fishing in the South
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Packed with rare humor and developed with such true originality, these hunting and fishing stories will delight and amuse even those who have never shot a gun or cast a fly.