An Artist In Big Game Country: “No Good.”
This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared in the August 1910 issue of Outing magazine. “Going a hunting” has a ring to it of romance and adventure. As your enthusiast holds forth, you sense the mystery of the forest and the mountains and the...
Ruark On Safari: Hemingway
An excerpt from Ruark Remembered by Alan Ritchie who served as Ruark’s personal secretary for 12 years. I had a feeling that Hemingway’s death affected Bob more than he would have admitted at the time, and, during the remainder of the safari he was puzzling out...
An Artist In Big Game Country: Moose Mishap
This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared in the August 1910 issue of Outing magazine. This day we were in the heart of moose country with an ideal landscape spread before us, glowing with the golden red of a northern sunset. I worked quickly,...
An Artist In Big Game Country: Charged By A Caribou!
This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared in the August 1910 issue of Outing magazine. So often have I heard the tales of hunters being attacked by moose, bears, etc., that with every trip I looked for some similar adventure to befall me. With the...
Africa’s ‘Last Great Wilderness’ in Jeopardy as Autocratic President Plans Mega-dam
First ran in The Telegraph It is arguably the Empire’s greatest legacy to conservation, the outrageous vision of a British poacher-turned-naturalist whose misanthropic cussedness would shape Africa’s largest wildlife sanctuary. Stretching across a swathe of woodland...
Uncle Perk’s Deer Lure
Originally published as one of his “The Lower Forty” columns in Field & Stream, this story is Chapter 29 of The Best of Corey Ford (1975). It is vintage Ford in not only the cast of characters but with wry humor and a disparaging poke at all the folderol...
An excerpt from A Small Southern Tale, by Bob Matthews
From the book The Greatest Quail Hunting Book Ever.
The Big-Footed Tusker
Rusted guns, language barriers, and misleading feet–a different sort of elephant hunt.
The Day the Old Duck Hunter Died
Gordon MacQuarrie just wanted to hear whistling wings one more time, but it wasn’t meant to be.