Huntings Best Short Stories

Author : Paul D. Staudohar
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 9781556524745
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunting's Best Short Stories written by Paul D. Staudohar and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful collection, classics including Guy de Maupassant's 'Love' and Ernest Hemingway's 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber' join contemporary offerings such as Wallace Stegner's 'The Blue-Winged Teal', 'On the Antler' by E Annie Proulx, and David Quammen's 'Walking Out'. From duck, goose, bear, and grouse hunting to stiffer contests for deer, elk, moose, bear, and big African game -- in one case, even a manhunt -- all kinds of hunting and all possible outcomes, from the comic to the heartwarming, disastrous, or bizarre, are explored. Against the backdrop of ocean, frozen swamp, forest, or jungle, we see the deep bonds between father and son, huntsman and dog, man and nature being forged or chattered as the line between sport and survival blurs, and the hunter risks becoming prey to weather, to circumstance, or to human and animal foes.

Author : Lamar Underwood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149308352X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told written by Lamar Underwood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I don't regard nature as a spectator sport." -Ed Zern, 1985 Hunting is a serious business-but it's also about camaraderie, achievements and failures, seeing new places, and revisiting cherished ones. The true stories here feature a variety of game, in locations that range from high Yukon Territory mountain peaks to lowland swamps off of Mobile Bay, Alabama. This is an indispensable volume for all lovers and students of the natural world. If your definition of home includes fields and marshes, creeks and river bottoms, plains and mountains, consider this required reading.

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476770476
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hemingway on Hunting written by Ernest Hemingway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Hemingway’s lifelong zeal for hunting is reflected in his masterful works of fiction, from his famous account of an African safari in “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” to passages about duck hunting in Across the River and into the Trees. For Hemingway, hunting was more than just a passion; it was a means through which to explore our humanity and man’s relationship to nature. Courage, awe, respect, precision, patience—these were the virtues that Hemingway honored in the hunter, and his ability to translate these qualities into prose has produced some of the strongest accounts of hunting of all time. Hemingway on Hunting offers the full range of Hemingway’s writing about the hunting life. With selections from his best-loved novels and stories, along with journalistic pieces from such magazines as Esquire and Vogue, this spectacular collection is a must-have for anyone who has ever tasted the thrill of the hunt—in person or on the page.

Author : Melissa Bank
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141909633
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing written by Melissa Bank and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing is the New York Times bestselling novel by Melissa Bank The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, relationships, and the treacherous waters of the workplace. Soon Jane is swept off her feet by an older man and into a Fitzgeraldesque whirl of cocktail parties, country houses, and rules that were made to be broken, but comes to realise that it's a world where the stakes are much too high for comfort. With an unforgettable comic touch, Bank skilfully teases out universal issues, puts a clever new spin on the mating dance, and captures in perfect pitch what it's like to come of age as a young woman. 'This chronicle of a New Yorker's relationships has a wit and perceptiveness that singles it out from the crowd' Guardian 'As hilarious as Girls' Guide is, there's a wise, serious core here' Wall Street Journal 'A sexy, pour-your-heart-out, champagne tingle of a read-thoughtful, wise, and tell-all honest. Bank's is a voice that you'll remember' Cosmopolitan

Author : Paul D. Staudohar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunting's Best Short Stories written by Paul D. Staudohar and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful collection, classics including Guy de Maupassant’s “Love” and Ernest Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” join contemporary offerings such as Wallace Stegner’s “The Blue-Winged Teal,” “On the Antler” by E. Annie Proulx, and David Quammen’s “Walking Out.” From duck, goose, and grouse hunting to stiffer contests for deer, elk, moose, bear, and big African game—in one case, even a manhunt—all kinds of hunting and all possible outcomes, from the comic to the heartwarming, disastrous, or bizarre, are explored. Against the backdrop of ocean, frozen swamp, forest, or jungle, we see the deep bonds between father and son, huntsman and dog, man and nature being forged or shattered as the line between sport and survival blurs, and the hunter risks becoming prey to weather, to circumstance, or to human and animal foes.

Author : Cliff McNish
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1444003690
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hunting Ground written by Cliff McNish and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Elliott and his brother, Ben, move into the old and crumbling Glebe House they don't expect to find themselves sharing it with ghosts. But soon sinister events are unfolding. An old diary reveals glimpses of the mansion's past - and of a terrible tragedy. A mysterious woman talks to the dead. And evil lurks in the East Wing - a hideous labyrinth of passageways devised by a truly twisted mind. Can Elliott and his family escape the clutches of Glebe House? Or will they be trapped in the maze of corridors, forever hunted by the dead? WINNER OF THE CALDERDALE AWARD 2013 WINNER OF THE HILLINGDON SECONDARY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013

Author : Taeko Kōno
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213912
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toddler-hunting & Other Stories written by Taeko Kōno and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disquieting stories exploring women's freedom & bondage in post-WWII Japan.

Author : Lamar Underwood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149304043X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great American Hunting Stories written by Lamar Underwood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 American Hunting Stories captures the very soul of hunting. With contributions from: Theodore Roosevelt, Nash Buckingham, Archibald Rutledge, Zane Grey, Lieutenant Townsend Whelen, Harold McCracken, Irvin S. Cobb, Edwin Main Post, Horace Kephart, Francis Parkman ,William T. Hornaday, Sc.D, Rex Beach, and more.

Author : Mark B. Steffen
Publisher : Boone and Crockett Club
ISBN 13 : 0940864541
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legendary Hunts written by Mark B. Steffen and published by Boone and Crockett Club. This book was released on 2006 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 43 short stories recounting the adventures for some of the most outstanding native North American big game trophies ever take. All of the stories were handpicked for the special way in which each hunter captured the essence of their hunting experiences, including their tenacity, their ethics, and their respect for the game hunted. You will feel the emotion, dedication, and excitement as you enjoy the stories of those men and women who have taken these outstanding trophies. You will read the story of a bowhunter and of the meticulous preparation and tactics that resulted in his taking of an oustanding bull elk, and most importantly, you will see each of these hunters embraced the concept of fair chase, and for that they should be applauded.

Author : Jack Devine
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 142994417X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Hunting written by Jack Devine and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sophisticated, deeply informed account of real life in the real CIA that adds immeasurably to the public understanding of the espionage culture—the good and the bad." —Bob Woodward Jack Devine ran Charlie Wilson's War in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action of the Cold War, and it was Devine who put the brand-new Stinger missile into the hands of the mujahideen during their war with the Soviets, paving the way to a decisive victory against the Russians. He also pushed the CIA's effort to run down the narcotics trafficker Pablo Escobar in Colombia. He tried to warn the director of central intelligence, George Tenet, that there was a bullet coming from Iraq with his name on it. He was in Chile when Allende fell, and he had too much to do with Iran-Contra for his own taste, though he tried to stop it. And he tangled with Rick Ames, the KGB spy inside the CIA, and hunted Robert Hanssen, the mole in the FBI. Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story is the spellbinding memoir of Devine's time in the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served for more than thirty years, rising to become the acting deputy director of operations, responsible for all of the CIA's spying operations. This is a story of intrigue and high-stakes maneuvering, all the more gripping when the fate of our geopolitical order hangs in the balance. But this book also sounds a warning to our nation's decision makers: covert operations, not costly and devastating full-scale interventions, are the best safeguard of America's interests worldwide. Part memoir, part historical redress, Good Hunting debunks outright some of the myths surrounding the Agency and cautions against its misuses. Beneath the exotic allure—living abroad with his wife and six children, running operations in seven countries, and serving successive presidents from Nixon to Clinton—this is a realist, gimlet-eyed account of the Agency. Now, as Devine sees it, the CIA is trapped within a larger bureaucracy, losing swaths of turf to the military, and, most ominous of all, is becoming overly weighted toward paramilitary operations after a decade of war. Its capacity to do what it does best—spying and covert action—has been seriously degraded. Good Hunting sheds light on some of the CIA's deepest secrets and spans an illustrious tenure—and never before has an acting deputy director of operations come forth with such an account. With the historical acumen of Steve Coll's Ghost Wars and gripping scenarios that evoke the novels of John le Carré even as they hew closely to the facts on the ground, Devine offers a master class in spycraft.