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Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in -- and fascination with -- big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. In examining the poetic grace of the chase, and the ferocity of the kill, Hemingway also looks inward, seeking to explain the...
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Readers of this book learn about hunter education, responsibility, planning hunts, hunting methods, and what tasks to perform after an animal is harvested. Big game hunters do not wipe out an entire population, and it's illegal to hunt animals that are endangered. Instead, licensed hunters support laws to protect wildlife from extinction and contribute to balancing wildlife populations. Some of the big game covered in this instructive guide include...
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"This is the story of the wanderings of two lifelong friends who had the courage to live their dreams in some of the last remaining wilderness left in southern Africa. The days when you could wander freely throughout the Dark Continent on your own, in search of great adventure, were fading fast when South Africans Hoffman Theron van Zijl and Gerhard Bolt came of age and set out on a series of adventures, together and on their own, in the 1970s and...
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Big, brash and fearless, Buffalo Jones is in pursuit of the greatest mountain lion ever spotted in the remote Arizona desert. Determined to bring the beast home alive, Jones leads a colorful band of brothers into a wild land, across the Colorado River to Buckskin Mountain at the red mesa rim of the Grand Canyon. But while Jones has foresworn all killing, even smashed his rifle on a wagon wheel in a vow to save the species, he and his men are entering...
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From the high deserts of New Mexico to the snow covered mountains of Montana, join us as we journey to some of the Rocky Mountain's finest. Each year we wait in anticipation to be in the places Elk call home. This year was simply spectacular, as each hunt celebrated great friendships, and the elk were on their best behavior! With the TRUTH 20 "BIG BULLS", we hope to share with you, what makes hunting Elk so special to us.
19) Shalako
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A group of European aristocrats venture into the wilds of New Mexico for a big-game hunt only to find themselves the hunted.