Field and Forest: Classic Hunting Stories - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762792884 ISBN 13: 9780762792887

Verlag: Lyons Press, 2013

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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. This newly updated volume - with an introduction by editor Stephen J. Bodio -- contains some of the best hunting tales ever written, stories that sweep from charging elephants 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.
Stories include:

• The Wilderness Hunter by Theodore Roosevelt
• Tige’s Lion by Zane Grey
• Lobo: The King of Currumpaw by Ernest Seton-Thompson
• My Antelope by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
• The Alaskan Grizzly by Harold McCracken
• Wolf-Hunting in Russia by Henry T. Allen
• Hunting on the Turin Plain by Roy Chapman Andrews

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Stephen Bodio is a Massachusetts native who has lived in tiny Magdalena, New Mexico, for three decades. He is the author of a half dozen books about the natural world, including A Rage for Falcons (1992) and Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia (2003). Bodio is also an avid falconer. On the Edge of the Wild: Passions and Pleasures of a Naturalist (1997) is a more eclectic collection of essays on hunting and fishing and adventurous travel.

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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. This collection of stories captures the very soul of hunting. With contributions from: Lt. Col. J. M. Patterson, D.S. O., Theodore Roosevelt, Nash Buckingham, Archibald Rutledge, Zane Grey, Lieutenant Townsend Whelen, Harold McCracken, Irvin S. Cobb, Edwin Main Post, Sir Richard Dane, Horace Kephart, Ivan Turgenev, Francis Parkman, William T. Hornaday, Sc.D, Rex BeachSettle into an armchair, and let the expedition begin.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lyons Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0762792884
• ISBN 13: 9780762792887
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
• Herausgeber: Bodio Stephen J.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV; info@simonandschuster.nl; ; Herculesplein 96; Utrecht; 3584 AA; Niederlande