Night Sweats
It is important for a man to do a thing well, even if it is killing. The honor of a feat is the measure of how you do it…And what was the truth of me? To hell with Bob Ruark. To blazes with Hemingway, Capstick, Percival, Boddington, the whole and bunch of them....
Belly of the Beast
Hunting elephants in cover so thick they can only be located by the rumbling of their stomachs.
Wilhelm Kuhnert – Rediscovering an Artist
The artistic legacy of Wilhelm Kuhnert, abridged by the first Great War and almost devastated by the second, is known to but a few wildlife art enthusiasts. On April 30, 1906, Wilhelm Kuhnert and his expedition of 80 porters were encamped along a wide river, less than...
Dealing with a Killer Elephant
The legend of a man-killing—and man-eating!—elephant that’s hard to pronounce and even harder to forget.
The Spotted Devil of Gummalapur
Kenneth Douglas Stuart Anderson (1910-1974) was an Anglo-Indian who spent most of his life in Bangalore, India. An avid hunter, he was fascinated by the subcontinent’s big cats, and most of his tales dealt with the drama and dangers of man-killing tigers and...
On Top of the World
Bowhunting polar bears where even angels fear to tread.
Lion on Foot
Following a lion on foot locks you into a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek with Africa’s deadliest predator. Armed with large, bone-crushing teeth and claws that grab like steel hooks, the African lion is one of the most formidable predators on earth. Lions are...
Venator Laurentian Estate
Covering some 22,000 square miles of territory just north of Montreal in the southern part of Quebec, the Laurentian Mountains consist of Precambrian rocks more than 540 million years old, making its soft peaks among the oldest in the world. SPONSORED CONTENT: Here,...
The Croc That Wouldn’t Die
I sat on the engine cowling, holding my rifle and studying the hideous design of the crocodile’s head. Then its eye opened.