The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told - by Lamar Underwood (Paperback)

About the Book

The greatest hunting stories by Ben East, Patrick O'Brien, Thomas McGuane, Vance Bourjaily, William Faulkner, Thomas McIntyre, Robert C. Ruark, Havilah Babcock, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Charles Fergus, John Barsness, Jesse Hill Ford, John Madison, Tom Hennessey, Ernest Hemingw...

Book Synopsis

"I don't regard nature as a spectator sport." -Ed Zern, 1985

Hunting is a serious business-but it's also about camaraderie, achievements and failures, seeing new places, and revisiting cherished ones. The true stories here feature a variety of game, in locations that range from high Yukon Territory mountain peaks to lowland swamps off of Mobile Bay, Alabama.

This is an indispensable volume for all lovers and students of the natural world. If your definition of home includes fields and marshes, creeks and river bottoms, plains and mountains, consider this required reading.

From the Back Cover

Hunting is a serious business - it's also about camaraderie, achievements, and failures, seeing new places, and revisiting cherished ones. The true stories here feature a variety of game, in locations that range from high Yukon Territory mountain peaks to lowland swamps off Mobile Bay, Alabama. This is an indispensable volume for all lovers and students of the natural world. If your definition of home includes fields and marshes, creeks and river bottoms, plains and mountains, consider this required reading.

Review Quotes

"Few would quarrel with the selection of any of the 29 writers included as among the best in the game. ...The stories tell about the planning, the quests, the challenges, and the experiences that make hunting what it is. Hunters will find many passages that bring back recollections of their treasured moments in camp with good friends. Other stories may take readers to place and times they will visit only in their dreams" -- The Conservationist

About the Author

LAMAR UNDERWOOD is aformer editor-in-chief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life magazines. He has edited The Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told, Man Eaters, The Bass Almanac, and The Quotable Soldier. He is the author of the novel, On Dangerous Ground. He lives in Pennington, New Jersey.