The first American-born professional hunter in Africa, Charles Cottar would survive three leopard maulings and near-fatal attacks by elephant and buffalo to found the First Family of Safari.
Sensing something wasn’t right, the lion popped his head out from behind the tree. Instantly, his big eyes blazed like coals and he issued a deep, rumbling growl. It was a hot and dry September day in Tanzania, just south of the little village of Loiborserrit....
Though engaging as a literary craftsman, Harris is even more appealing as an artist. The game-rich veld of southern Africa was his studio; lions, elephants, and even a now extinct species of wild horse were his subjects. Although he would spend less than a year...
The bear pounced on him like a dog on a gopher and was soon shaking and mauling both Earl and the canvas. Some of the best hunting in North America is to be found south of the Mexican border along the Sierra Madre Mountains, from western Chihuahua and extending down...
The gruesome exploits of the maneaters, together with those of Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson…form one of the most fantastic tales in the annals of African adventure. In the 1890s Britain’s far-flung empire covered a quarter of the globe,...
American hunter Joseph Grew sat on the small pile of straw that settled as his bed in the comer of a dilapidated temple, listening intently to the savage tales of the 10 hunters sitting around him. From beneath a bluish-gray cloud of stagnant opium smoke and burning...
Still ruled by the spirits of Mayan kings, Mexico’s Espiritu Santo Bay is a timeless place of ancient temples, unexplored tropical forests alive with strange and wondrous creatures, and hidden lagoons where on some days, eager bonefish snatch every fly tossed...