posted by admin on Oct 22
Product Description
Discover the Great Outdoors!
The excitement of the hunt
The escape from everyday work and commitments
The reflection of the rising sun on the waters edge
…and a new appreciation of God’s awesome power –
all from the glory of nature!
Take the trek of a lifetime. Join companion and confidante Fr. Joe Classen, a young priest inspired by God’s Creation, as he experiences the great outdoors. Share in empowering reflections about life, spirituality, and “the pursuit,” as he recounts tales from boyhood to manhood, articulating the deep satisfaction and awesome responsibility of he who becomes one with nature.
Perfect for every hunter, fisherman, or adventurer this one-of-a-kind book guides you to:
* Recognize God in the abundance of nature
* Realize and mobilize your talents and gifts
* Find lasting sources of hope, strength, and happiness through the outdoors
* Address personal shortcomings and obstacles
* Search for the ultimate Truth
* and much more!
Embark on a life-changing expedition of your own. Discover a renewed appreciation for God and His works — through the vigor and vitality of the great outdoors!
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posted by admin on Mar 11
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Alan Liere collects close encounters of the piscatorial kind and sets them down with a wry sense of humor and a sympathy for fishermen that arises from 50 years of sharing their special kind of madness. His work is proof that the funniest things in life are generally the truest." –Chris Madson, editor, Wyoming Wildlife
"Not many writers can write short and well. Even fewer can write short and well and move the reader. Al Liere does all three and, with the fewest possible keystrokes, touches the heart." –Paul Quinnett, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and the author of Pavlov’s Trout
"The tapestry of Alan Liere’s writing isn’t just the main thread of fishing. Nor is it the tight weave of family, conservation, or place. It’s not even Liere’s knife-edged humor. It’s all those things flowing together like a river through his stories of life. This is writing at its best." –Scott Stouder, Western field director for Trout Unlimited
Fish Tales is a collection of adventures, misadventures, and reflections by humor writer Alan Liere. All who spend time on the water can relate to Liere’s outdoor outtakes. Fish Tales, a collection of the 80 funniest "Fish Tales" featured in Northwest, Southwest, and Eastern Fly Fishing magazines, is the perfect gift for anglers of all ages.
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posted by admin on Feb 18
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
From his articles published in sporting magazines during the past two decades, Capstick gathers material for a collection that packs technical pieces on guns and ammunition plus lively stories about fishing and big-game hunting. In the most controversial essay here, he defends wholesale slaughter of marauding baboons in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). He takes us pigsticking in Argentina; hunting the red buffalo, the most dangerous of all game animals, in Amazonia; snook fishing in the Gulf of Mexico; and salmon-fishing in Iceland. All is delivered with a light touch. Capstick advocates the use of a BB gun on a regular basis to sharpen eye-hand coordination; he offers recipes for biltong (jerky). The book is proof that the Great White Hunter is alive and well.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Following the smashing success of Last Horizons (SMP, 1989), Peter Capstick now presents a second volume of pieces culled from such magazines as Outdoor Life, NRA’s American Hunter, Guns & Ammo, and Petersen’s Hunting. The articles showcase a literary style that prompted Kirkus Reviews to say of Last Horizons, “No one since Hemingway (with the possible exception of Ruark) has written on these subjects with such literary gusto.”
The stockbroker-turned-outdoorsman recalls his days as an African pro hunter in “The Killer Baboons of Vlackfontein.” “Four Fangs in a Treetop” records a foray into British Honduras for the jaguar, “a gold-dappled teardrop of motion.” Capstick narrowly escapes the Yellow Beard, Central America’s deadly tree-climbing snake, and cows “The Black Death (Cape buffalo) in the kind of article that makes this author “the guru of American hunting fans” (New York Newsday). On Brazil’s forsaken Marajo Island, he bags the pugnacious red buffalo, which has the “temperament of a constipated Sumo wrestler and the tenacity of an IRS man.”
The author discusses 12- and 20-gauge shotgun loads; recalls the pleasures of “biltong” (African beef jerky); describes the irresistible homemade lures of snook fishing expert John Gorbatch; and kills a genteel take of Atlantic salmon with the brilliantly simple tube fly.
Over thirty gorgeous drawings by famous wildlife artist Dino Paravano make this volume yet another collector’s item by a writer who “keeps the tradition of great safari adventure alive in each of his books” (African Expedition Gazette).
Peter Capstick’s eight prior titles include The Last Ivory Hunter (SMP, 1988); Peter Capstick’s Africa (SMP, 1987); and Death in the Long Grass (SMP, 1978).
posted by admin on Feb 5
Editorial Reviews
Review
“In every line a celebration of man and his environment, written with love and profound understanding.” — Edmund Morris, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
In this magnificent book, Bartle Bull charts the history of the African safari from the first great expedition of 1836, when Cornwallis Harris crossed the Transvaal with an ox-wagon, to the guides of today, carrying on the tradition in the swamps of Tanzania and the forests of Ethiopia. Capturing the timeless beauty of the African bush, Bull tells of the men and women who made this land their home from Frederick Courtenay to Beryl Markham, the legendary expeditioners who brought fame to the safari; from Teddy Roosevelt to the Prince of Whales, and the native Africans who made the adventures possible. An active environmentalist, Bull examines the ethics of hunting and the apparent dilemma of the hunter-conservationist. Against a rich background of tribal and colonial history, he documents developments in weapons and transport, in literature and film, in game control and conservation, and conveys the attraction that has never changed—the magical freedom of the African bush.
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posted by admin on Feb 5
Editorial Reviews
A little over 100 years ago, East Africa was terra incognita to most whites: a land largely unmapped, sparsely settled by Europeans, and teeming with wildlife–from elephants to wildebeest, bongos to rhinos, and all manner of scarifying beasts in between. It was the hunter-adventurer’s paradise, and by the early 20th century, a small, lionhearted clan of explorers and big-game hunters began leading safaris there for money. They became the legendary White Hunters of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, men who led manifold adventurers–including royalty, film stars, writers, and millionaires–in pursuit of the world’s biggest, most dangerous, and most sought-after game.
White Hunters is a nostalgic and densely-packed history of these men and their adventures, from the turn of the century until the 1970s when politics, a growing population, civil strife, and concern about species destruction intervened. Brian Herne has written a virtual and anecdotal Who’s Who of White Hunters, crammed with the details of hundreds of hunts and the dozens of men who led them.
This is no book for the faint-hearted or the politically correct. Despite Herne’s insistence that his heroes were the first true conservationists, White Hunters is all about the testosterone-enhanced glory of killing big, beautiful things: “Clary fired, dropping his quarry with a side brain shot. The record-class tusks weighed 159 and 143 pounds each, a gigantic elephant….” On the other hand, a staggering number of hunters died in pursuit of their quarry–mauled, eviscerated, or impaled on the tusks of furious, vengeful beasts.
Not so long ago lions wandered the streets of Nairobi. The politics of big-game hunting aside, the White Hunters’ East Africa–wild, mysterious, unspoiled–is vanishing, and Herne has painstakingly documented an era that most readers will likely never know. –Svenja Soldovieri
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
A second-generation Kenyan who has professionally hunted big game for more than 30 years and is an honorary Uganda National Park warden, Herne did exhaustive archival research and conducted countless interviews to produce this encyclopedia of gore and glamour. From roughly 1890 to 1970, American and European aristocrats, movie stars and business tycoons converged on East Africa, hiring professional white hunters to lead them on lengthy, luxurious shooting expeditions. Theodore Roosevelt’s 1909 safari lasted for months and employed 500 porters. The early generation of white hunters set the pace for a hard-drinking, bed-hopping lifestyle. Later, Bror Blixen, Isak Dinesen and Denys Finch-Hatton carried on just as flamboyantly as their screen counterparts in Out of Africa. In turn-of-the-century Nairobi, inebriated ladies rode their ponies up steps into bars. But the dangers were real, and Herne details various narrow escapes and deaths by mauling. Typically colorful is the story about the filming of King Solomon’s Mines, during which a bull elephant rushed the cameras and was stopped by a bullet. The relieved crew and actors posed for pictures on the animal, which disappeared later that day, never to be found again. Heavier on anecdotes than on overview, Herne’s book skips discreetly over all the cultural and political ironies of Europeans coming to Africa to shoot at its natural resources. It will, however, reward armchair hunters with a rich portrait of a magnificent landscape, its animal inhabitants and some of its most reckless human interlopers. (June)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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posted by admin on Jan 21
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Few writers have matched Capstick’s flair describing the hunt…in gruesome, realistic terms…A page-turner that is absolutely spine-tingling.”–Publishers Weekly on Death in the Long Grass
“A most dramatic, action, danger and adventure epic for big game hunting fans…You won’t put it down until finished.”–Maryland Gazette on Death in the Silent Places
“Imagine confronting one of the most dangerous game animals of Africa. No thanks?…Well, the next best thing to being there (and a whole lot safer!) is a Peter Hathaway Capstick book.”–Best Sellers on Death in the Dark Continent
— Review
Review
“Few writers have matched Capstick’s flair describing the hunt…in gruesome, realistic terms…A page-turner that is absolutely spine-tingling.”–Publishers Weekly on Death in the Long Grass
“A most dramatic, action, danger and adventure epic for big game hunting fans…You won’t put it down until finished.”–Maryland Gazette on Death in the Silent Places
“Imagine confronting one of the most dangerous game animals of Africa. No thanks?…Well, the next best thing to being there (and a whole lot safer!) is a Peter Hathaway Capstick book.”–Best Sellers on Death in the Dark Continent
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posted by admin on Jan 15
Editorial Reviews
The best of fishing humor from America’s most beloved sporting cartoonist.
Any angler who has ever been out-fished by a beginner with a twig and some twine or questioned whether bass are smarter than he is will be in good company here. Hilarious Fishing Cartoons pokes fun at every kind of angling absurdity. Tiers struggling to tie microscopic flies, bass fishermen who catch more boots than bass, weekenders loaded down with every gizmo and piece of tackle in the shop, and fanatical, freezing ice fishermen doomed to drill and not grill are all represented. Troy’s pen is deft and clever, and his one-liners are truly side-splitting. The next time your line gets so tangled you’re ready to curse or quit fishing forever, remember these cartoons and you may just find yourself chuckling instead. 170 color illustrations.
About the Author
John Troy’s cartoons have appeared in Field & Stream, Sports Afield, Outdoor Life, Audubon, In-Fisherman, Ducks Unlimited Magazine, Fly Fisherman, and dozens of other outdoor publications. He is the creator of “Ben,” the beloved and mischievous hunting dog who was featured in several of his eleven bestselling cartoon collections. John Troy grew up in New Jersey and now lives with his wife, Doris, in Dade City, Florida.
posted by admin on Jan 15
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Prior to his successful Death in the Tall Grass , Capstick contributed to sporting magazines such as Guns and Ammo , Outdoor Life and American Hunter. This volume, a collection of pieces written between 1969 and 1986, will be welcomed warmly by sportsmen and -women, safari buffs and vicarious adventurers. In addition to his tales of stalking and shooting dangerous game, Capstick holds forth on guns and ammunition; he says many safari clients carry more guns than they can handle. He discusses hunting the smaller African game (antelope) and recounts fishing experiences in Central and South America. In the final chapter, Capstick turns to whimsya mythical Open Day on dragons. Even a rabid anti-hunter would find this piece entertaining.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This anthology of Capstick’s articles range from 1969 into the 1980s and were selected from such popular general hunting and shooting magazines as Guns & Ammo , American Hunter , and Petersen’s Hunting . Capstick lives in Africa; his first love is Africa; his forte is in his knowledge of and writings about Africa, rather than “on five continents.” His fishing expertise is reflected only in a couple of articles among the total 24. Each selection in the book is prefaced by an informative introduction by Capstick, which adds immensely to the articles. Outdoor sports and adventure collections where the author’s Death in the Long Grass (1978) and Death in the Dark Continent (1983) are popular will want to consider this.
- Eugene J. Millich, formerly with Univ. of Wisconsin Lib., La Crosse
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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posted by admin on Jan 14
Editorial Reviews
Relive the hunts, joy, and trepidation of famous American deer hunters such as William Faulkner, Aldo Leopold, and Oliver Hazard Perry. Features rare historical paintings and photographs of long past deer camps. This is the second title in the popular Deer & Deer Hunting Classics series.