Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told

More than one hundred of the greatest authors and hunters who ever lived, collected in one 576-page volume.Hunters were the original storytellers. Long before anyone wrote it down, the day's hunt was the story told around the fire—the sign read, the tracks followed, the shot made or missed. This anthology gathers that tradition in print: over a hundred pieces of hunting fiction and nonfiction, from the deer woods of America to the slopes of Mount Kenya and the prairies where the bison ran.Theodore Roosevelt is here. So are Zane Grey, Aldo Leopold, Rick Bass, Philip Caputo, Geoffrey Norman, and Gene Hill—presidents and poets, guides and naturalists, conservationists and market hunters.What you'll find inside:Big game from Africa, the Rockies, and Alaska: lion, elephant, grizzly, moose, elk, and sheepWhitetail deer camp: opening morning, the long sit, the buck that walkedUpland birds, waterfowl, and turkey—wingshooting, good dogs, hard walkingLiterary fiction alongside firsthand true accounts, some more or less exaggeratedConservation and hunting ethics from the naturalists who shaped American wildlife policyLuck, failure, camaraderie, and the long drive home empty-handedSome of these you'll remember. Many you've never read. All of them capture what pulls people out of bed at four in the morning in the cold.For anyone who hunts, anyone who used to, and anyone who loves a well-told story about wild country, this is a volume to keep by the chair all season, and a lasting gift for a father, a hunting partner, or a new hunter.