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Tracks of an Intruder. Young. Tracks of an Intruder. Young.

Scuffed dustjacket.
A firsthand account of how an American naturalist gained recognition as a master hunter from the montagnard Lahu of Thailand.

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The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag. Corbett The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag. Corbett

Most of Jim Corbett's books contain collections of stories that recount adventures tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalaya. This volume, however, consists of a single story, often considered the most exciting of all Corbett's jungle tales. He gives a carefully-detailed account of a notorious leopard that terrorized life in the hills of the colonial United Provinces. This story represents Corbett's most sustained and unique effort. Book has a different Cover.

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Last Adventure. Johnson. Last Adventure. Johnson.

First Edn
Last Adventure
by Osa Johnson
A year in North Borneo.

Pix of a reprint book.

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Nine Man-Eaters & One Rogue. Anderson. Nine Man-Eaters & One Rogue. Anderson.

Rogue tigers have been killing and eating people in Southeast Asia since the dawn of time. Nine Man-Eaters & One Rogue is the exciting story of one man's efforts to save lives in the jungles of India. The author relates these true adventures and educates the reader in the complexities of the living jungle.

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Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon. Corbett Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon. Corbett

The last of Colonel Jim Corbett's books on his unique and enthralling hunting experiences in India, this volume concludes the narrative of his adventures with tigers begun in the famous Man-Eaters of Kumaon. These stories maintain, perhaps even supercede, the high standard of the earlier classic collection. Corbett saves his best story of all for the long concluding chapter in this volume, describing, in The Talla Des Man-Eater, how he embarked on what he feared might be a fatal last test of skill and endurance. As always, he writes with an acute awareness of all jungle sights and sounds, choosing words charged with a great love of humanity, birds, and animals. His calm and straightforward modesty heightens the excitement and suspense of these experiences, in which he continuously risks his life to free the Indian tarai of dangerous man-eaters.

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To the Elephant Graveyard. Hall To the Elephant Graveyard. Hall

On India's northeast frontier, a killer elephant is on the rampage, stalking Assam's paddy fields and murdering dozens of farmers. Local forestry officials, powerless to stop the elephant, call in one of India's last licensed elephant hunters and issue a warrant for the rogue's destruction. Reading about the ensuing hunt in a Delhi newspaper, journalist Tarquin Hall flies to Assam to investigate.
To the Elephant Graveyard is the compelling account of the search for a killer elephant in the northeast corner of India, and a vivid portrait of the Khasi tribe, who live intimately with the elephants. Though it seems a world of peaceful coexistence between man and beast, Hall begins to see that the elephants are suffering, having lost their natural habitat to the destruction of the forests and modernization. Hungry, confused, and with little forest left to hide in, herds of elephants are slowly adapting to domestication, but many are resolute and furious. Often spellbinding with excitement, like "a page-turning detective tale" (Publishers Weekly), To the Elephant Graveyard is also intimate and moving, as Hall magnificently takes us on a journey to a place whose ancient ways are fast disappearing with the ever-shrinking forest.

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Memoirs of a Hunter Memoirs of a Hunter

Memoirs of a Hunter - Experiences in Finland and Russia 1904-1930- Friedrich Remmler, Edited by Martin Hollinshead
Memoirs of a Hunter is an astonishing account of hunting, trapping and hawking in Finland and Russia between 1904 and 1930. Coming from a manuscript lost for thirty-five years, this is a staggering true-life adventure of deep snow, dark forests and times and places long since claimed by history: in Finland, lynx are run down on skis, in Tsarist Russia borzois are matched against wolves, and below the Ural Mountains the reader is introduced to some of the most formidable golden eagles ever employed in falconry. It's a tale of bear hunts and of stalking seals out on frozen oceans, of forgotten techniques, hardship and danger. Described in graphic detail and illustrated by renowned Russian artist Vadim Gorbatov, this mesmerizing account will captivate not only the hunter, but anyone interested in wildlife and the outdoors.
'Many know of Friedrich Remmler as the first western master of eagles. But his Memoirs of a Hunter opens up an entire lost world, so wild and brave it seems it could not be just a century ago. Nobody interested in the history of hunting and lost adventures should miss this book.' Stephen Bodio

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Hunting Trips in the Land of the Czars. Czech. Hunting Trips in the Land of the Czars. Czech.

HUNTING TRIPS IN THE LAND OF THE CZARS

Sportsmen in Old Russia, 1870-1935
edited by Kenneth Czech
Sportsmen in Old Russia, 1870-1935
Asia, like Africa, is one of the Valhallas of big-game hunting. After the solid success of Czech’s book on Chinese hunting (Hunting in the Land of the Dragon), he decided to do a book on the other Asian giant: Russia. And when we speak of Russia, we talk of all the terrain that goes from the Polish border in Europe to the Kamchatka Peninsula just above Japan. With a plethora of game animals, Russia has always had a rich big-game hunting history. Ken Czech, one of the foremost experts on Asian big-game hunting literature, chose some of the best-known names to contribute to his work. The stories are all about hunting big game, and the contributors are a who‘s who of hunting in Imperial Russia: Prince Demidoff, Frank Wallace, George Littledale, Duc d’Orleans, Anthony Buxton, Paul Niedieck, and Ralph Cobbold, to name a few. Whether it is pursuing snow sheep in Kamchatka, red deer in the Urals, tur in the Caucasus, or tiger on the Amur River, this book covers all the big-game hunting that was once found in Russia. A wonderful collection of stories that is the best of the best from the great and varied literature that has sprung forth on Russian hunting in the last 150 years.

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I Killed for a Living. Oggeri I Killed for a Living. Oggeri

I KILLED FOR A LIVING
The Story of the Last Big-Game Hunter in Southeast Asia
by Etienne Oggeri
224pp, photos, 6x9, hardcover
Vietnam was once known as a paradise for big game, and Etienne Oggeri, the last living PH from Vietnam, grew up and hunted in what was known as French Indochina. As we all know, the Vietnam was destroyed by civil war, and only recently has it opened to hunting once more, and that on a limited basis. Thus, to have someone with Oggeri’s background write his memoirs of big-game hunting in French Indochina is something not to be missed.
Oggeri is descended from French settlers who immigrated to Indochina to build railroads . . . and to hunt. Oggeri made his living either guiding sport hunters or poaching Asian elephants for ivory. Neither was easy, but he excelled at this extremely challenging occupation. During the course of his career, he also learned how to avoid the guerrillas who infiltrated the country and made hunting in the jungles of Vietnam a very dangerous profession, indeed. Never one to give up easily, he was undisturbed by it all. He guided Berry Brooks, a famous hunter and Weatherby Award winner, to several very good trophies, including gaur and tiger. This was but one of the highlights of his career. Others include poaching elephants and convincing the authorities he had done no wrong. Oggeri was a master of getting out of very tight spots—usually of his own doing.
These very well-written vignettes give us a view into a hunting world that was once equally as vibrant as Africa. Ultimately, Oggeri was forced to leave his beloved Vietnam, not because the Vietcong, and not because of his poaching, but because of the torrid love affair he had with Lechi, the sister of Madame Nhu, the first lady of Vietnam. This iron lady ruled over a corrupt government and arbitrarily ordered his expulsion in 1962.
Tigers and gaur are no longer hunted in Southeast Asia, and Vietnam is now on the road to becoming a commercial society, so it is only here in these pages that you can read the story of what hunting was like in the glory days of Vietnam. Etienne Oggeri was not only the foremost outfitter/guide in that country, but he is also a great writer who knows how to tell an interesting and riveting story. Those hunters who served in the U.S. military in Vietnam will find this book a particularly emotive experience.



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The Second Jim Corbett Omnibus. The Second Jim Corbett Omnibus.

Contains 3 books by Corbett
Tree Tops.
Jungle Lore.
My India.

Jim Corbett is world famous for his classic man-eater stories. However, the three volumes collected here show a very different side to this remarkable man. In My India, he describes the villages of the Kumaon Hills, and the customs and lifestyles of the people he encountered. Jungle Lore is the closest Corbett ever came to writing an autobiography, combining recollections of his earliest days with frank views on the need for conservation which were well ahead of their time. Finally, in Tree Tops, the only book Corbett set outside his beloved India, he captures the savage beauty of Kenya's wildlife as well as telling the story of the royal visit of 1952, during which Princess Elizabeth learned she was Queen.

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Around the World and then some. Hanlin Quimby Around the World and then some. Hanlin Quimby

AROUND THE WORLD AND THEN SOME

A Pennsylvania Deer Hunter on Six Continents
by David Hanlin (with Bill Quimby)
To do something right in life, you need a good foundation. For David Hanlin that foundation was his grandfather and his uncle, Joe Semple, who took him out in the woods and guided him to his first deer, a doe, when he was eleven. Hanlin's hunting life started from this very simple beginning, for he had no rich relatives to take him on deluxe tented East African safaris. In fact, to get through college he worked in a steel plant to pay his bills.
In 1958 he and his friends went to Alaska for an unguided hunt, where they shot a moose, and then the adventure began! That night, no less than four brown bears came into camp, attracted by the smell of moose meat. In the fracas two bears were shot. From then on, Hanlin was hooked on the thrill of big-game hunting. There is very little in Hanlin's lifetime he did not hunt, and he was fortunate enough to take dozens of trips to Asia and Africa as well as many trips to Canada and the western United States.
As he said "I always had to work hard for my trophies," and his experiences prove this statement. He was one of the last hunters in Sudan before the country closed to hunting, and he was on his first safari to Mozambique in 1971 when FRELIMO fighters stole the carcasses of the animals he had shot in order to feed their troops. While hunting in the Philippines he had to use a M-1 Garand rifle with solid bullets to shoot buffalo. He was just plain lucky that he had a semiautomatic because the two buffalo were more than a little aggressive, one because of a large ear infection. When he arrived in Moscow with "forbidden" magazines, U.S.S.R. Customs officials found them and promptly sat down to read them in front of all the arriving passengers! It's experiences like these that make big-game hunting the grand sport it is.
After you have shot a Grand Slam, a Super Slam, the Big Five, all the spiral-horn antelope of Africa, and virtually everything in North America, you have a lot of stories to tell. Hanlin's book contains the highlights of his hunting career-the funny episodes, the mishaps, and the unusual. And although he has hunted the mighty argali of Asia, he still prefers the deer of Pennsylvania, his home state, to wild sheep.

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Addicted to Altitude. Confessions of a Mountain Hunter. Hampton Addicted to Altitude. Confessions of a Mountain Hunter. Hampton

Mark Hampton is one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a family of avid hunters. He was raised in rural, south Missouri where hunting and fishing were a way of life. The local school closed for deer season and still does to this day. Mark's father was serious about hunting taking polar bear, grizzly, dall sheep, moose, bighorn, mule deer, elk, and many other North American trophies. The passion for hunting ran deep in the family. Today, Hampton has hunted in twenty five countries on six continents and continues to explore remote areas searching for game. He has taken over one hundred and forty different species of big game with a handgun alone. Far from being a "collector", Mark is passionate about hunting. His enthusiastic dedication and goal-oriented drive has led him to various mountain ranges in pursuit of difficult and sought after big game.

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Sixty Years a Hunter. Quimby. Sixty Years a Hunter. Quimby.

To the hunting world Bill Quimby is best known as the longtime editor of SCI’s Safari magazine. In this position Quimby had the chance to hunt on multiple continents for all the sundry game animals found there. In this book he tells us of hunts across North and South America; South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and other parts of Africa; Spain; Mongolia; and New Zealand. Also included is Quimby’s successful...

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With Rifle and Petticoat: Women as Big Game Hunters 1880 -1940. Czech With Rifle and Petticoat: Women as Big Game Hunters 1880 -1940. Czech

Explores the interesting women who hunted a variety of big game animals around the world. Women such as Lady Florence Dixie, Agnes Herbert, Osa Johnson, Grace Gallatin Seton, & Gladys Harriman hunted so well, they made names for themselves & wrote of their adventures. 200 pgs.
The image that comes to mind when you think of big game hunters is of African safaris with men carrying enormous guns hunting exotic game. But there were women on those trips as well, and not just the trips to Africa, and they were often as successful at the hunt as the men. Women such as Lady Florence Dixie, Agnes Herbert, Osa Johnson, Grace Gallatin Seton, and Gladys Harriman hunted so well, they made names for themselves and wrote of their adventures. Divided into chapters detailing a specific time period, region hunted or individual woman, With Rifle and Petticoat explores the interesting women who hunted a variety of big game animals around the world.

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Hunting Trips in the Land of the Dragon. Czech. Hunting Trips in the Land of the Dragon. Czech.

HUNTING TRIPS IN THE LAND OF THE DRAGON
Anglo and American Sportsmen in Old China, 1870-1940
edited by Kenneth Czech
2004 Long Beach, 271pp, photos, illus. by Clive Kay, 6x9, hardcover, dj

Stretching nearly 4,000,000 square miles across eastern Asia, China offers a kaleidoscopic landscape, varying from tropical jungles in the southeast to the windswept plains of Manchuria and Mongolia to the rugged mountain ranges of Tian Shan and Kunlun Shan in the far west. This rich and varied land has been home to a wide variety of wild game. Though Chinese emperors and nobles of bygone dynasties enjoyed sport hunting for tiger, deer, and feathered game, China was rarely recognized for its sporting opportunities until the midnineteenth century. With the steady mercantile encroachment of Europeans, people began to realize what a hunter's paradise China was. It was a land of adventure for those who sought game at the rooftop of the world or on the bottom of the rivers. By the end of the nineteenth century, China had become a popular destination for high-mountain stalking in the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and the Hindu Kush Range. The first part of this anthology takes the reader after duck, pheasant, and other upland game while the second part focuses on the large game of China and the border regions. The latter includes hunts for Manchurian tiger, tufted deer, goral, wild goat, wild yak, antelope, takin, wild sheep in the Mongolian Altai, wapiti, blue sheep, ibex, Ovis poli of the Pamir, wild sheep of the Tian Shan, brown bear, and panda—all written by such famous names as Major General Kinloch, St. George Littledale, Kermit Roosevelt, and Roy Chapman Andrews.

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The Tiger Roars. Anderson. The Tiger Roars. Anderson.

Hailed as the best of all Anderson's books, The Tiger Roars reminds one of the man-eating tigers he had tracked down, ferocious panthers fond of human blood, the ageing elephant meeting a sad end, and his own adventurous hours spent in the primeval jungles of India.

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The Black Panther of Sivanipalli. Anderson. The Black Panther of Sivanipalli. Anderson.

Anderson, more famous for hunting maneating tigers, finds in a wily panther a real challenger to his hunting acumen. There are thrills, failures, disappointments and at long last, the elusive success. He tells the real - life adventure story set in the deep jungle, with snakes, bisons and of course tigers, with unique verve and color which only he is capable off.

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Call of the Maneater. Anderson. Call of the Maneater. Anderson.

Anderson's love-hate relationship with panthers and tigers who terrorised the villagers and were eventually hunted down by the author in hair-raising encounters is legendary. In this book the jungle scenario is crowded with a hyena, a jackal, a bear, a barking deer and a few snakes which the hunter-writer tamed and kept as pets around him.

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Jungle Lore. Corbett. 2nd Edn Jungle Lore. Corbett. 2nd Edn

Jim Corbett, naturalist, shikari, and conservationist is famous for his tales of hunting in the Indian Jungle. Many years before the issues of conservation became understood, Corbett was obsessed with the jungle and animals of the Kumaon hills. This new edition of Jungle Lore offers Corbett's own story of his life and career. At the heart of the narrative is a cry for sensitivity to the fragility of nature, and despair over mankind's divorce from his environment--a message as vibrant today as it ever was.

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From The Himalayas to the Rockies. Mitchell & Frisina From The Himalayas to the Rockies. Mitchell & Frisina

FROM THE HIMALAYAS TO THE ROCKIES
Retracing the Great Arc of Wild Sheep
by Dr. R. Mitchell & Dr. M.Frisina
2005 Long Beach, 230pp, color and B&W photos, hardcover,

From the small urial sheep of the Middle East to the mighty 60-plus-inch argali to the majestic Rocky Mountain ram, it is fair to say that no other class of animal evokes such great passions in hunters as do the wild sheep of the world. The authors of this book have established a definitive classification for every species and subspecies of sheep, which is the first time in more than forty years anyone has attempted to do so. In the process they lay out a systematic approach for classifying both New and the Old World sheep. They provide detailed distribution maps and color photos to enhance the descriptions, which help make this the best overview to date on the wild sheep of the world. For purposes of completeness, blue sheep, Barbary sheep, and tur have been included, even though they are not true sheep. There is also a section of hunting stories by famous sheep hunters such as Jack Atcheson Sr. and Jr., Soudy Golabchi, Robert Logan, Hubert Thummler, Dennis Campbell, Henry van den Broecke, Margaret Frisina, Duncan Gilchrist, and so on. Both Drs. Mike Frisina and Richard Mitchell have spent countless days in the field studying and observing sheep in areas as diverse as Pakistan, central Asia, Mongolia, Alaska, and the western United States. The authors reclassify many sheep, which is sure to be controversial to some, and they offer a fresh approach to a subject matter that endlessly fascinates hunters.

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Jaguar Hunting in the Mato Grosso and Bolivia Jaguar Hunting in the Mato Grosso and Bolivia


JAGUAR HUNTING IN THE MATO GROSSO AND BOLIVIA
With Notes on Other Game
by Tony de Almeida

Not since Sacha Siemel has there been a book on jaguar hunting like this. Tony de Almeida was the most successful guide for jaguars in the history of South American hunting. He guided some of the most famous people in the world to the world’s largest jaguars. Chronicling Tony’s career from its very beginning, this fascinating book will take you into the remotest parts of the “green hell”—South America’s endless jungles.

In the pages of this book you will find information on virtually every large mammal that Tony encountered over his long and illustrious career: pumas from the jungles, Marsh deer from the swamps, the diminutive brocket deer from the thickets, and even the spotted prince from the rain forest, the ocelot.

But above all these animals stands the king of the jungle, the world’s third largest cat, the jaguar. This most elusive of all cats is generally only encountered under the most difficult of circumstances in the densest terrain possible. When you follow the hounds, the client, and Tony into the thicket where the jaguar makes his last stand, you will experience one of the greatest adventures known to hunters left on this planet. These tales are a fantastic depiction of hunting history as it was, since jaguars are now no longer hunted today.

This is one of the finest books ever written on the subject of hunting the South American jaguar.

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Jim Corbett, Master of the Jungle. Werling. Jim Corbett, Master of the Jungle. Werling.

A Biography of India's Most Famous Hunter of Man-Eating Tigers and Leopards.
The riveting, true-life tales of the legendary Jim Corbett and the man-eating tigers and leopards he tracked and killed in India in the early part of the 1900s. One of the 20th century's greatest hunters and a noted naturalist, Corbett, in his memoirs, downplayed the courage and resourcefulness that marked his career. Retired Army officer Tim Werling has produced not only an accurate account of Corbett's exploits, but a book filled with gripping adventure.

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Royal Quest. Quimby Royal Quest. Quimby

ROYAL QUEST
The Hunting Saga of H.I.H. Prince Abdorreza of Iran
by Bill Quimby
2004 Long Beach, 325pp.

His Imperial Highness Prince Abdorreza of Iran was an internationally known big-game hunter famous for his startling world records and the diverse nature of his hunts. He began his hunting career at an early age on the outskirts of Teheran, shooting birds and rabbits; from there he graduated to the most stellar hunting career ever seen. Prince Abdorreza was the first hunter after WWII to hunt Marco Polo sheep in Afghanistan and the Russian Pamirs, an expedition that lasted over 7 weeks and took dozens of yak and men. He was privileged to hunt some of the most unusual animals on earth for the National Museum of Iran: Arabian thar; Siberian tiger; all subspecies of markhor; just about every sheep in Asia, and all the sheep of Africa, Europe, and North America. At the end of his life, he held numerous world records and had more trophies entered in either the Rowland Ward and the Boone and Crockett record books than any other person. His list of accomplishments is so long that they cannot all be listed, but here are several to give you a taste of this book: no less than four expeditions to the Pamirs after Marco Polo sheep; pioneering hunts in the Tian Shan of China and Siberia as early as the 1970s; all the spiral-horned antelope of Africa; no less than twelve tigers; the walia or Ethiopian ibex; banteng in Indonesia; and gaur in Nepal. The Prince hunted with the greats of the big-game hunting world such as Syd Downey, Pinnell & Talifson, Jack O'Connor, Elgin Gates, and Herb Klein. James Mellon accompanied the Prince on several expeditions, and some of the hunts these two men experienced in Oman, Pakistan, and Peru will never be repeated. Never a person to rest on his laurels, he accelerated his hunting in the last ten years of his life with numerous mountain hunts in Asia. The Prince hunted wild yak and chiru antelope in Tibet, shot a 65-plus-inch kudu, and made several trips for a 50-inch buffalo. This book, written by the former editor of Safari magazine, Bill Quimby, is based upon countless hours of taped interviews and complete access to Prince Abdorreza's photo albums and diaries. No other hunting book will ever tell a story like this! Sadly, Prince Abdorreza died unexpectedly on 11 May 2004.

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Beyond the Mountains. Hidvegi Beyond the Mountains. Hidvegi

BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS
by Bela Hidvegi

2014 Budapest, 342pp, color photos, 7.5x10.5, hardcover with photo inlay.

The author is likely Hungary's most prominent international hunter and is often seen at hunting conventions around the world. He has hunted throughout much of Africa, North and South America, Europe, and Asia, but then so have many others. What makes this book interesting are the personal anecdotes: How he bailed himself out time and again from tricky situations like being stuck in the middle of nowhere with no chance of transport out for days or his scrapes with Hungarian officialdom to get his antlers and horns back into the country for his trophy room, which he eventually turned into a large natural history museum.

Being history-minded, Bela often investigates those hunters that came before him and unearths fascinating reading for us all in the process. In the author's own word: "I've been through jungles, on savannas, in pine forests, and over tundra, in swamps, in groves, on the plains- I've been everywhere in the natural world. Great experiences and memories flash before me as I think back over the past years and decades. There were so many experiences, so many bitter lows and joyous highs, so much hard work, so much disappointment that was endured on these trails, whether in the densest African jungles or the snow and ice-covered northern regions of Canada or Kamchatka. So I really hope these words will be enjoyable, or at least a valuable lesson, for both hunters and nonhunters alike. This book is the culmination and sum total of the experiences I gathered on nearly fifty safaris and hunts. Reality not dreams, are foremost in this book."

The chapters are constructed thematically, such as "Cats" (leopard, jaguar, lion) and bears (Asia, Europe, and America). Then there are stories on what Bella calls "Mickey Mouse antelope," narratives on his struggles for the little antelope and duikers in Africa. "Adventures in the New World" deal with his success and failures in America, and "Jungle Fever" describes hunts in the thickest vegetation on earth and includes a forest elephant and other animals. In "Ham Slam" he, well obviously, brings home the bacon.

Amongst the hunting stories, Bela weaves tales of how his career in business developed, which becomes a catalogue of the events that changed and defined his life for the last seventy-seven years. . . . The book is interspersed with interesting snippets about his family and of his early days hunting in Hungary. If you excuse a few spelling mistakes, the book is enjoyable reading.

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Tigrero!. Siemel. Tigrero!. Siemel.

Sasha Siemel was a figure of monumental importance on the American hunting-world stage of the 1930s,'40s,'50s, and '60s. He was unique not only as a hunter but also as a man. He is the only known white man to have fought the fierce jungle jaguars of Brazil with a spear, and as a man, he made a stand for decency in everything he did. This was a man who believed in the ideals of freedom, adventure, honor, family, home, and courage-ideals he upheld throughout his life.

He was so famous in his day that he appeared in advertisements, cartoons, Hollywood films, and even in a full-feature article in The New York Times. That NYT article included multiple photos of his bag of many jaguars and other game! (Can you imagine the NYT today saying anything positive about shooting a coyote?) He also wrote a very long piece for National Geographic in 1954. Again, can you imagine NG allowing a hunter today to write of his exploits? His fight against Assassino, the name given to the much-feared man-eating jaguar that killed his mentor, was published in Life and Reader's Digest in the mid-1950s. From 1930 to 1952, Sasha was featured in Time magazine seven times. He published his autobiography, Tigrero! in 1953.
Alexander "Sasha" Siemel hailed from Latvia, which he left when he was sixteen to seek an adventurous life abroad. He first landed in Chicago, where he learned English, and then he immigrated to Argentina to join his brother. Once in South America he found a job as a mechanic, but he was soon drawn to the vast wilderness of the Mato Grosso. His dream was to become a jaguar hunter in the endless grasslands and marshes of the Pantanal, where big game flourished and where courteous Brazilian ranchers pursued rugged lives.
He sought out and eventually found Joaquim Guató, a native reported to be an expert tigrero, or jaguar hunter. Guató fought jaguars armed only with a spear, and he passed on his knowledge to Sasha before he himself was killed by the man-eating Assassino. Sasha proved a highly capable apprentice, first hunting jaguars with a rifle and later with a spear. Over time he became the most successful hunter of jaguars in the history of South America, and it is reported that in his long career as a jaguar hunter, Sasha Siemel engaged in thirty-one victorious spear fights against these ferocious beasts.
In the early 1930s, Sasha realized that he wanted more than just a solitary existence, and he felt the need to tell others about the Mato Grosso and his experiences there. So, when he was in his early forties, he began touring the USA extensively. He held lectures and presentations, and at one of those talks he met and eventually married Edith Bray, an American from Philadelphia. He continued to lead expeditions and hunters into the "green hell" of South America. Among these were Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Roosevelt's nephew Kermit, Julian Duguid, Mamerto Urriolagoitia (President of Bolivia), dignitaries, and business titans. Sasha Siemel continued his life of hunting, leading expeditions, and giving lectures well into the 1960s . . . long after most people would have retired. (He died in 1970 at the age of eighty.)
The original book was short on photos that highlighted Sasha Siemel's exciting jaguar adventures and his entrepreneurial activities. This revised, expanded edition was made possible through the generosity of the Siemel children in loaning their family archive to Safari Press; this archive allowed Safari Press to include in this new edition considerable new material as well as a large selection of new photos and period illustrations. (There was so much material that we had to leave a lot lying on the cutting floor.)
It is often said that Mother Nature did not create the wildlife of South America with the big-game hunter in mind, but there is one exception to this adage-and that is the jaguar. In making the jaguar, Mother Nature made up in spades for what the continent lacks in big game (when compared to Africa). No other large cat on earth is as difficult to hunt as the jaguar, and there is likely not another hunt as dangerous or as exciting as hunting this great feline with a spear. Sasha Siemel hunted the mighty jaguar for nearly fifty years. Tigrero! tells the tale of his extraordinary hunting career.

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Song of the Summits. Yuren's. Song of the Summits. Yuren's.

Jesús Yurén’s book is a hymn to the great love of his life: mountain hunting. A master of sheep and ibex hunting, Yurén is one of only a handful of men who has hunted in practically all the mountains of the earth, from Alaska and Mexico to China, Mongolia, and Russia. Accumulating a North American Grand Slam as well as a super slam of sheep, he has hunted just about every variety of wild sheep and goat in the world. Starting in 1972 with a desert bighorn, he continued for...

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Gamemasters of the World. Klineburger Gamemasters of the World. Klineburger

GAMEMASTERS OF THE WORLD
A Chronicle of Sport Hunting and Conservation
by Chris Klineburger
The name Klineburger is synonymous with the era of international big-game hunting following WW II. From a humble beginning in Arizona, the three Klineburger brothers—Gene, Chris, and Bert—built up one of the world’s largest hunting agencies and taxidermy firms in the world. They are also credited with opening hunting in many different countries, and in the process they did an extraordinary amount of hunting for themselves.

Brother Chris had never written a book until now, and it is a whopper: over 700 pages with scores of photos and a host of interesting tales. In the late 1950s, Chris lived for a season with the Eskimos in the frozen north learning how they hunted and fished. Equally at home in high diplomatic circles, he knew the right people and had the right connections to help him open up Afghanistan for Marco Polo sheep hunting in the late 1960s. Both Africa and Asia saw the Klineburger brothers arrive dozens and dozens of times--whether to help open Uganda to sport hunting or to try to set up exploratory hunts in China and the Soviet Union.

Some of Chris’s tales include his quest for a Grand Slam. This journey encompassed no less than seven hunts for bighorn and persisted till he finally got one. Then there is the story of the months he spent in the Pamirs looking for a markhor and a Marco Polo sheep. Chris has hunted as widely as just about any person of his time, and he brings us his experiences from a unique point of view—that of a person who has first hand knowledge of the many venues available to modern sport hunters . . . because he and his brothers were the ones who organized and helped open many of these places for hunting. Whether it was a client who died on a high mountain hunt in Asia or guiding the king of Nepal, Chris has lived through some of the most interesting moments in hunting since WW II.

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Hunting in the Mountains and Jungles of Nepal. Byrne Hunting in the Mountains and Jungles of Nepal. Byrne

HUNTING IN THE MOUNTAINS AND JUNGLES OF NEPAL
by Peter Byrne
2012 Long Beach, 277pp, color photos, 6x9, hardcover
Ltd. of 1,000 numbered, signed, & slipcased copies.

Past readers of Peter Byrne books know about his early hunting days as a tea planter in India and his exploits in Nepal hunting big game. We've also learned of his enthusiasm for the adventures of Jim Corbett. In Hunting in the Mountains and Jungles of Nepal, Byrne's latest oeuvre, he picks from among some of the seventy-two shikars he conducted in the 50s and 60s for tigers and other Nepalese game to bring us what he considers his most memorable hunts.

Most tiger hunts were conducted via elephant back, from a machan, or by beaters pushing the quarry, but Byrne feels that the tiger hunts conducted on foot were by far the most memorable . . . for a good reason. They are extremely dangerous. He found that only very few clients dared to go after a tiger on foot. We read about the three most exciting tiger hunts Byrne ever conducted on foot, which includes the time he guided internationally famous big-game hunter James Mellon for his big cat.

Of course, not all clients were brave, and we learn of what can and did go wrong for Byrne. Besides the cowards who would not enter the tall grass even on the back of an elephant, there were the fools who got lost. There was even one intellectually challenged individual who in the heat of the moment loaded a Tootsie Roll into his bolt action instead of a bullet.

Peter did his own hunting as well as guiding, and once he and a colleague tried to run down a leopard with dogs. Everything seemed to be going well until they ran into a tiger, and the tables turned on them. The mighty hunters became the tiger's prey. These true tales from the jungles and hill country of India and Nepal are really quite chilling.

Byrne also retells the interesting story of how Robert Ruark was not hoodwinked by a crooked Indian outfitter who had placed a frozen leopard in a tree for his client to shoot. Ruark had to flee India in a hurry afterward, but we'll leave it up to you to read the story to find out what happened. At a fancy party in Bel Air, California, Peter confronts the truth about the biggest tiger ever: a thirteen-foot monster.

Finally, he tells us about a client who brought along African PH Tony Archer and even a Wakamba tracker from Kenya to help with the hunt. If all this is not enough excitement, Byrne concludes with two additional hunts with James Mellon for water buffaloes in Assam and a high Himalayan hunt for a goral and serow.

Tiger hunting is gone, and books on tiger hunting are now rarely published. Strangely enough, we feel this is one of the best on the subject...and it may very well be the last.

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Big Game Hunting. Montbel. Big Game Hunting. Montbel.

Worldwide big game hunting - long section on Africa. 255 pp, profuse ill. Zebra end papers. Extra large format. A splendid production. Hunting in Equatorial Africa for the big five, rare antelopes, also in Angola & Mozambique. Then to Europe & Asia. Really great photos, and trophies.

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Classic Carmichel. Carmichel. Classic Carmichel. Carmichel.

Classic Carmichael - Stories from the Field is an amazing compilation of some of Jim Carmichael's best articles and stories. The author was for decades the field editor for Outdoor Life, and while many of the stories found in this book were first published in that magazine, they are now offered here in a much expanded versions—with many of the original images included.
These riveting tales include the following: the monster "dead" crocodile that came back to life twice and almost killed him on Zimbabwe's "river of death"; the dangerous three-mile-high hunt in the Andes of Peru for taruca where he ended up without a rifle; the drama and intrigue of a $100,000 Russian stag hunt complete with a Moscow hotel room full of rubles; an Alaskan moose hunt in the middle of Typhoon Oscar; a stalk for trophy deer in Arizona's legendary "strip"; and many more fabulous sagas. It also contains a few interesting chapters on how he did his job: answering hundreds of letters a month from readers, testing guns, and making it from one assignment to the next.
Maybe the best part is that Jim never writes about his adventures without including us in his hunting parties. He takes us with him wherever he goes, and we are as scared, jubilant, exhausted, terrified, and enlightened as he is—before, during, and after these expeditions.
Classic Carmichael - Stories from the Field is a book that will transport you back to the time of the Golden Age of hunting, offering you the privilege of being next to the shooting world's last Renaissance Man . . . whether he is on assignment in the brush, bush, or bench. This book is, simply, a must read!

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