Hunting at High Altitudes

Madison Grant

• 01 juni 2012
• 9780940864917

Samenvatting:

Originally published in 1913 and remastered by the Boone and Crockett Club in 2012. This fifth book in the acclaimed Acorn Series includes a collection of unique hunting adventures by Members of the Boone and Crockett Club. Read about accounts of unique hunting expeditions and adventures in the Rocky Mountains, Mongolia, Turkestan, Cuba, and Alaska. It includes Colonel Pickett's memories of a bear hunter. George L. Harrison, Jr., writes of shooting the ibex and the great argali, dwellers in the Thian SHan Mountains; Roger D. Williams tells how they hunt deer in Cuba; and Madison Grant gives an interesting account of wild life in Alaska. Table of Contents: Chapter One Col. Wm. D. Pickett, Chapter Two Memories of a Bear Hunter (18761883) including Notes on Memories of a Bear Hunter by George Bird Grinnell, Chapter Three In the Old Rockies, Chapter Four Ibex Shooting in the Thian Shan Mountains, Chapter Five A Shooting Trip in Northwestern Rhodesia, Chapter Six The Condition of Wild Life in Alaska, Chapter Seven Deer Hunting in Cuba, Chapter Eight Elephant Seals of Guadalupe Island, plus additional appendices.